On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 01:21:54PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Removing a drive with drive_del while it is being used to run an I/O
> intensive workload can cause QEMU to crash.
>
> An AIO flush can yield at some point:
>
> blk_aio_flush_entry()
> blk_co_flush(blk)
> bdrv_co_flush(blk->root->bs)
> ...
> qemu_coroutine_yield()
>
> and let the HMP command to run, free blk->root and give control
> back to the AIO flush:
>
> hmp_drive_del()
> blk_remove_bs()
> bdrv_root_unref_child(blk->root)
> child_bs = blk->root->bs
> bdrv_detach_child(blk->root)
> bdrv_replace_child(blk->root, NULL)
> blk->root->bs = NULL
> g_free(blk->root) <============== blk->root becomes stale
> bdrv_unref(child_bs)
> bdrv_delete(child_bs)
> bdrv_close()
> bdrv_drained_begin()
> bdrv_do_drained_begin()
> bdrv_drain_recurse()
> aio_poll()
> ...
> qemu_coroutine_switch()
>
> and the AIO flush completion ends up dereferencing blk->root:
>
> blk_aio_complete()
> scsi_aio_complete()
> blk_get_aio_context(blk)
> bs = blk_bs(blk)
> ie, bs = blk->root ? blk->root->bs : NULL
> ^^^^^
> stale
>
> The solution to this user-after-free situation is is to clear
> blk->root before calling bdrv_unref() in bdrv_detach_child(),
> and let blk_get_aio_context() fall back to the main loop context
> since the BDS has been removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
