On 4/17/18 3:25 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I see elv.priv[1] assignments made in a few places -- is it possible
>> there is some kind of uninitialized-but-not-NULL state that can leak
>> in there?
>
> Got it. This fixes it for me:
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 0dc9e341c2a7..859df3160303 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_get_request(struct
> request_queue *q,
>
> rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tag, op);
> if (!op_is_flush(op)) {
> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
> if (e && e->type->ops.mq.prepare_request) {
> if (e->type->icq_cache && rq_ioc(bio))
> blk_mq_sched_assign_ioc(rq, bio);
> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq)
> e->type->ops.mq.finish_request(rq);
> if (rq->elv.icq) {
> put_io_context(rq->elv.icq->ioc);
> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
> }
> }
This looks like a BFQ problem, this should not be necessary. Paolo,
you're calling your own prepare request handler from the insert
as well, and your prepare request does nothing if rq->elv.icq == NULL.
--
Jens Axboe
