On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 3:02 AM, James Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 20:12 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> I still haven't figured this out, though... any have a moment to look >> at this? > > Just to let you know you're not alone ... but I can't make any sense of > this either. The bfdq is the elevator_data, which is initialised when > the scheduler is attached, so it shouldn't change. Is it possible to > set a data break point on elevator_data after it's initialised and see > if it got changed by something? Yeah, it seems like some pointer chain is getting overwritten outside of a lock or rcu or ?. I don't know this code well enough to guess at where to check, though. What I find so strange is that the structure offsets are different between bfpd's rq_in_driver field and scsi_request's sense field, so even THAT doesn't look to be clear-cut either: struct bfq_data { struct request_queue * queue; /* 0 8 */ struct list_head dispatch; /* 8 16 */ struct bfq_group * root_group; /* 24 8 */ struct rb_root queue_weights_tree; /* 32 8 */ struct rb_root group_weights_tree; /* 40 8 */ int busy_queues; /* 48 4 */ int wr_busy_queues; /* 52 4 */ int queued; /* 56 4 */ int rq_in_driver; /* 60 4 */ ... struct scsi_request { unsigned char __cmd[16]; /* 0 16 */ unsigned char * cmd; /* 16 8 */ short unsigned int cmd_len; /* 24 2 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ int result; /* 28 4 */ unsigned int sense_len; /* 32 4 */ unsigned int resid_len; /* 36 4 */ int retries; /* 40 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ void * sense; /* 48 8 */ ... This is _so_ weird. :P -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security