On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:23:04PM -0700, Tyrel Datwyler wrote: > On 6/2/21 6:30 AM, Ming Lei wrote: > > After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is > > set via dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(), > > otherwise device name will be leaked because it is allocated > > dynamically in dev_set_name(). > > > > Fixes the issue by replacing kfree(shost) via put_device(&shost->shost_gendev) > > which can help to free dev_name(&shost->shost_dev) when host state is > > in SHOST_CREATED. Meantime needn't to remove IDA and stop the kthread of > > shost->ehandler in the error handling code. > > This statement is incorrect for kthread. If error handler thread failed to spawn > the value of shost->ehandler will be ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) which will pass the "if > (shost->ehandler)" check in scsi_host_dev_release() resulting in a > kthread_stop() call for a non-existant kthread which triggers a bad pointer > dereference. Here is an example splat: > > scsi host11: error handler thread failed to spawn, error = -4 > Kernel attempted to read user page (10c) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) > BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x0000010c > Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000818e9a8 > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries > Modules linked in: ibmvscsi(+) scsi_transport_srp dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region > hash dm_log dm_mod fuse overlay squashfs loop > CPU: 12 PID: 274 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.13.0-rc7 #1 > NIP: c00000000818e9a8 LR: c0000000089846e8 CTR: 0000000000007ee8 > REGS: c000000037d12ea0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc7) > MSR: 800000000280b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28228228 > XER: 20040001 > CFAR: c0000000089846e4 DAR: 000000000000010c DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 > GPR00: c0000000089846e8 c000000037d13140 c000000009cc1100 fffffffffffffffc > GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000037dc0000 > GPR08: 0000000000000000 c000000037dc0000 0000000000000001 00000000fffff7ff > GPR12: 0000000000008000 c00000000a049000 c000000037d13d00 000000011134d5a0 > GPR16: 0000000000001740 c0080000190d0000 c0080000190d1740 c000000009129288 > GPR20: c000000037d13bc0 0000000000000001 c000000037d13bc0 c0080000190b7898 > GPR24: c0080000190b7708 0000000000000000 c000000033bb2c48 0000000000000000 > GPR28: c000000046b28280 0000000000000000 000000000000010c fffffffffffffffc > NIP [c00000000818e9a8] kthread_stop+0x38/0x230 > LR [c0000000089846e8] scsi_host_dev_release+0x98/0x160 > Call Trace: > [c000000033bb2c48] 0xc000000033bb2c48 (unreliable) > [c0000000089846e8] scsi_host_dev_release+0x98/0x160 > [c00000000891e960] device_release+0x60/0x100 > [c0000000087e55c4] kobject_release+0x84/0x210 > [c00000000891ec78] put_device+0x28/0x40 > [c000000008984ea4] scsi_host_alloc+0x314/0x430 > [c0080000190b38bc] ibmvscsi_probe+0x54/0xad0 [ibmvscsi] > [c000000008110104] vio_bus_probe+0xa4/0x4b0 > [c00000000892a860] really_probe+0x140/0x680 > [c00000000892aefc] driver_probe_device+0x15c/0x200 > [c00000000892b63c] device_driver_attach+0xcc/0xe0 > [c00000000892b740] __driver_attach+0xf0/0x200 > [c000000008926f28] bus_for_each_dev+0xa8/0x130 > [c000000008929ce4] driver_attach+0x34/0x50 > [c000000008928fc0] bus_add_driver+0x1b0/0x300 > [c00000000892c798] driver_register+0x98/0x1a0 > [c00000000810eb60] __vio_register_driver+0x80/0xe0 > [c0080000190b4a30] ibmvscsi_module_init+0x9c/0xdc [ibmvscsi] > [c0000000080121d0] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2d0 > [c000000008261abc] do_init_module+0x7c/0x320 > [c000000008265700] load_module+0x2350/0x25b0 > [c000000008265cb4] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd4/0x160 > [c000000008031110] system_call_exception+0x150/0x2d0 > [c00000000800d35c] system_call_common+0xec/0x278 > > > I'm happy to send a fix, but I see two possible approaches. > > 1.) Set shost->ehandler = NULL if kthread_run() fails in scsi_host_alloc() > > or > > 2.) Test that (shost->ehandler && !IS_ERR(shost->ehandler)) before calling > kthread_stop in scsi_host_dev_release() Either one looks fine for me, please go ahead to make a patch, and thanks for the catch! -- Ming
