This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: qla2xxx: Get mutex lock before checking optrom_state
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
scsi-qla2xxx-get-mutex-lock-before-checking-optrom_state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Aug 9 10:32:06 PDT 2017
From: "Milan P. Gandhi" <mgandhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 22:02:46 +0530
Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Get mutex lock before checking optrom_state
From: "Milan P. Gandhi" <mgandhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c7702b8c22712a06080e10f1d2dee1a133ec8809 ]
There is a race condition with qla2xxx optrom functions where one thread
might modify optrom buffer, optrom_state while other thread is still
reading from it.
In couple of crashes, it was found that we had successfully passed the
following 'if' check where we confirm optrom_state to be
QLA_SREADING. But by the time we acquired mutex lock to proceed with
memory_read_from_buffer function, some other thread/process had already
modified that option rom buffer and optrom_state from QLA_SREADING to
QLA_SWAITING. Then we got ha->optrom_buffer 0x0 and crashed the system:
if (ha->optrom_state != QLA_SREADING)
return 0;
mutex_lock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
rval = memory_read_from_buffer(buf, count, &off, ha->optrom_buffer,
ha->optrom_region_size);
mutex_unlock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
With current optrom function we get following crash due to a race
condition:
[ 1479.466679] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 1479.466707] IP: [<ffffffff81326756>] memcpy+0x6/0x110
[...]
[ 1479.473673] Call Trace:
[ 1479.474296] [<ffffffff81225cbc>] ? memory_read_from_buffer+0x3c/0x60
[ 1479.474941] [<ffffffffa01574dc>] qla2x00_sysfs_read_optrom+0x9c/0xc0 [qla2xxx]
[ 1479.475571] [<ffffffff8127e76b>] read+0xdb/0x1f0
[ 1479.476206] [<ffffffff811fdf9e>] vfs_read+0x9e/0x170
[ 1479.476839] [<ffffffff811feb6f>] SyS_read+0x7f/0xe0
[ 1479.477466] [<ffffffff816964c9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Below patch modifies qla2x00_sysfs_read_optrom,
qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom functions to get the mutex_lock before
checking ha->optrom_state to avoid similar crashes.
The patch was applied and tested and same crashes were no longer
observed again.
Tested-by: Milan P. Gandhi <mgandhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Milan P. Gandhi <mgandhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
@@ -243,12 +243,15 @@ qla2x00_sysfs_read_optrom(struct file *f
struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw;
ssize_t rval = 0;
+ mutex_lock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
+
if (ha->optrom_state != QLA_SREADING)
- return 0;
+ goto out;
- mutex_lock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
rval = memory_read_from_buffer(buf, count, &off, ha->optrom_buffer,
ha->optrom_region_size);
+
+out:
mutex_unlock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
return rval;
@@ -263,14 +266,19 @@ qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom(struct file *
struct device, kobj)));
struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw;
- if (ha->optrom_state != QLA_SWRITING)
+ mutex_lock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
+
+ if (ha->optrom_state != QLA_SWRITING) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
return -EINVAL;
- if (off > ha->optrom_region_size)
+ }
+ if (off > ha->optrom_region_size) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
return -ERANGE;
+ }
if (off + count > ha->optrom_region_size)
count = ha->optrom_region_size - off;
- mutex_lock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
memcpy(&ha->optrom_buffer[off], buf, count);
mutex_unlock(&ha->optrom_mutex);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgandhi@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/scsi-qla2xxx-get-mutex-lock-before-checking-optrom_state.patch