On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 09:07:28AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > I got this with syzkaller: > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN > Dumping ftrace buffer: > (ftrace buffer empty) > CPU: 0 PID: 11941 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #169 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 > task: ffff880110762cc0 task.stack: ffff880102290000 > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81f04b7a>] [<ffffffff81f04b7a>] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x4a/0x70 > RSP: 0018:ffff880102297cd0 EFLAGS: 00010202 > RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90000bb4000 > RDX: 0000000000000097 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000004b8 > RBP: ffff880102297cd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88011a010a90 > R13: ffff88011a594568 R14: ffff88011a010890 R15: 7fffffffffffffff > FS: 00007f2445174700(0000) GS:ffff88011aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 00000000200047c8 CR3: 0000000107eb5000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 > DR0: 000000000000001e DR1: 000000000000001e DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600 > Stack: > 1ffff10020452f9e ffff880102297db8 ffffffff81508daa 0000000000000000 > 0000000041b58ab3 ffffffff844e89e1 ffffffff81508b30 ffffed0020452001 > 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff81508daa>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x27a/0x2e0 > [<ffffffff81508b30>] ? filemap_check_errors+0xe0/0xe0 > [<ffffffff83c24b47>] ? preempt_schedule+0x27/0x30 > [<ffffffff810020ae>] ? ___preempt_schedule+0x16/0x18 > [<ffffffff81508e36>] filemap_fdatawrite+0x26/0x30 > [<ffffffff817191b0>] fdatawrite_one_bdev+0x50/0x70 > [<ffffffff817341b4>] iterate_bdevs+0x194/0x210 > [<ffffffff81719160>] ? fdatawait_one_bdev+0x70/0x70 > [<ffffffff817195f0>] ? sync_filesystem+0x240/0x240 > [<ffffffff817196be>] sys_sync+0xce/0x160 > [<ffffffff817195f0>] ? sync_filesystem+0x240/0x240 > [<ffffffff81002b60>] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x190/0x190 > [<ffffffff8150455a>] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.4+0x3a/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff81005524>] do_syscall_64+0x1c4/0x4e0 > [<ffffffff83c3276a>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 > Code: 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 75 35 48 8b 9b e0 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d bb b8 04 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 75 17 48 8b 83 b8 04 00 00 5b 5d 48 05 10 02 00 00 > RIP [<ffffffff81f04b7a>] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x4a/0x70 > RSP <ffff880102297cd0> > > The problem is that sync() calls down to blk_get_backing_dev_info() > without necessarily having the block device opened (if it races with > another process doing close()): > > /** > * blk_get_backing_dev_info - get the address of a queue's backing_dev_info > * @bdev: device > * > * Locates the passed device's request queue and returns the address of its > * backing_dev_info. This function can only be called if @bdev is opened <---- > * and the return value is never NULL. > */ > struct backing_dev_info *blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device *bdev) > { > struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev); > > return &q->backing_dev_info; > } > > bdev_get_queue() crashes on dereferencing bdev->bd_disk->queue because > ->bd_disk was set to NULL when close() reached __blkdev_put(). > > Taking bdev->bd_mutex and checking bdev->bd_disk actually seems to be a > reliable test of whether it's safe to call filemap_fdatawrite() for the > block device inode and completely fixes the crash for me. > > What I don't like about this patch is that it simply skips block devices > which we don't have any open file descriptors for. That seems wrong to > me because sync() should do writeback on (and wait for) _all_ devices, > not just the ones that we happen to have an open file descriptor for. > Imagine if we opened a device, wrote a lot of data to it, closed it, > called sync(), and sync() returns. Now we should be guaranteed the data > was written, but I'm not sure we are in this case. But maybe I've > misunderstood how the writeback mechanism works. > > Another ugly thing is that we're now holding a new mutex over a > potentially big chunk of code (everything that happens inside > filemap_fdatawrite()). The only thing I can say is that it seems to > work here. > > I have a reproducer that reliably triggers the problem in ~2 seconds so > I can easily test other proposed fixes if there are any. I would also be > happy to submit a new patch with some guidance on the Right Way to fix > this. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Don't know what's the right fix, but I posted a slightly different one for the same crash some months ago: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8556941/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html