RE: [PATCH] qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2xxx_eh_abort on bad ptr

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kuzeja [mailto:William.Kuzeja@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 8:47 AM
> To: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: qla2xxx-upstream@xxxxxxxxxx; Bill Kuzeja <William.Kuzeja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2xxx_eh_abort on bad ptr
> 
> I've seen this issue only after a Qlogic card breaks upon initialization (one of
> my test cases). After the break, qla2x00_abort_all_cmds gets invoked. This
> routine has a relatively new section introduced by these
> commits:
> 
> commit 1535aa75a3d8 ("scsi: qla2xxx: fix invalid DMA access after command
> aborts in PCI device remove") commit c733ab351243 ("scsi: qla2xxx: do not
> abort all commands in the adapter during EEH recovery") commit
> 2780f3c8f0233 ("scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid that issuing a LIP triggers a kernel crash")
> 
> The section is problematic in certain cases. Here's the if statement in
> question:
> 
>     if (GET_CMD_SP(sp) && !ha->flags.eeh_busy) {
>        /* Get a reference to the sp and drop the lock.
>         * The reference ensures this sp->done() call
>         * - and not the call in qla2xxx_eh_abort() -
>         * ends the SCSI command (with result 'res').
>         */
>         sp_get(sp);
>         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ha->hardware_lock,flags);
>         qla2xxx_eh_abort(GET_CMD_SP(sp));
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&ha->hardware_lock, flags);
>     }
> 
> Now here's the panic my test provokes:
> 
> [  927.823858] Call Trace:
> [  927.581661]  qla2xxx_eh_abort+0x19/0x2b0 [qla2xxx] [  927.829269]
> [<ffffffffa046c146>] qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0xf6/0x14 [qla2xxx] [
> 927.845014]  [<ffffffffa046c4bf>]
> qla2x00_disable_board_on_pci_error+0x8f/0x160 [qla2xxx] [  927.863054]
> [<ffffffff810a805b>] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470 [  927.875916]
> [<ffffffff810a8e96>] worker_thread+0x126/0x410 [  927.888203]
> [<ffffffff810a8d70>] ? rescuer_thread+0x460/0x460 [  927.901067]
> [<ffffffff810b064f>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0 [  927.911823]  [<ffffffff810b0580>]
> ?kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
> [  927.926224]  [<ffffffff81696718>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90 [  927.938132]
> [<ffffffff810b0580>] ?kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
> 
> We crash in qla2xxx_eh_abort trying to get the vha:
> 
> 	scsi_qla_host_t *vha = shost_priv(cmd->device->host);
> 
> Closer examination of the crash shows that the value of "cmd" is 2, certainly
> not a valid pointer.
> 
> What's happening here?
> 
> The check at the top of the if-block GET_CMD_SP(sp) implicitly != NULL
> would have prevented this sort of thing. However, since sp->u.scmd.cmd is
> not *quite* null (in my crashes it's usually 2), we fall into the if-block and call
> qla2xxx_eh_abort - and crash trying to get cmd.
> 
> Note that the GET_CMD_SP(sp) is doing this:
> 
> #define GET_CMD_SP(sp) (sp->u.scmd.cmd)
> 
> and is acting upon a union:
> 
>         union {
>                 struct srb_iocb iocb_cmd;
>                 struct fc_bsg_job *bsg_job;
>                 struct srb_cmd scmd;
> 	}
> 
> The address it's getting is the first element in this structure:
> 
> struct srb_cmd {
> 	struct scsi_cmnd *cmd;		/* Linux SCSI command pkt */
> ....
> }
> 
> However, since this is a union, the same memory can be used this way
> instead:
> 
> struct srb_iocb {
> 	union {
> 		struct {
> 			uint16_t flags;
> 			uint16_t data[2];
> 			u32 iop[2];
> 		} logio;
> 	....
> 
> Turns out, in the kernel panics I have gotten, the iocb type is logio (verified
> by srb->type = SRB_LOGIN_CMD).
> 
> To further check, I looked at the logio iocb in the crash:
> 
>         logio = {
>           flags = 0x2,
>           data = {0x0, 0x0}
>         ....
> 
> which follows since:
> 
>        lio->u.logio.flags |= SRB_LOGIN_COND_PLOGI;
> 
> and
> 
> #define SRB_LOGIN_COND_PLOGI	BIT_1
> 
> In order to eliminate this crash, this patch adds an extra check to the top of
> the if statement to check whether or not sp->type == SRB_SCSI_CMD.
> If not, then don't bother doing the rest of the if-block. It doesn't look like we
> should be invoking qla2xxx_eh_abort for anything other than srb_cmds
> anyways.
> 
> I thought about changing the definition of GET_CMD_SP to include this type
> check and return NULL if sp is not type SRB_SCSI_CMD - like this:
> 
> #define GET_CMD_SP(sp) ((sp->type == SRB_SCSI_CMD) ? sp->u.scmd.cmd
> : NULL)
> 
> I decided against it as there are multiple places in the code that do not check
> for NULL. If you're calling GET_CMD_SP you should be dealing with an
> SRB_SCSI_CMD....but we aren't in this case. So, for this patch I went with the
> more contained and safer change.
> 
> This problem is hard to hit, but I have run into it doing negative testing many
> times now (with a test specifically designed to bring it out), so I can verify
> that this fix works. My testing has been against a RHEL7 driver variant, but
> the bug and patch are equally relevant to to the upstream driver.
> 
> Fixes: 1535aa75a3d8 ("scsi: qla2xxx: fix invalid DMA access after command
> aborts in PCI device remove")
> Signed-off-by: Bill Kuzeja <william.kuzeja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> index d01c90c..4eec095 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> @@ -1617,7 +1617,8 @@ uint32_t qla2x00_isp_reg_stat(struct qla_hw_data
> *ha)
>  				/* Don't abort commands in adapter during
> EEH
>  				 * recovery as it's not accessible/responding.
>  				 */
> -				if (GET_CMD_SP(sp) && !ha-
> >flags.eeh_busy) {
> +				if (GET_CMD_SP(sp) && !ha->flags.eeh_busy
> &&
> +				    (sp->type == SRB_SCSI_CMD)) {
>  					/* Get a reference to the sp and drop
> the lock.
>  					 * The reference ensures this sp-
> >done() call
>  					 * - and not the call in
> qla2xxx_eh_abort() -
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Thanks for the patch. This looks good.

Acked-By: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx>




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