On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 6:26 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 05:41:15PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:07 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 03:36:56PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > > > The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a
> > > > NULL pointer dereference when accessing control
> > > > device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs:
> > > >
> > > > [ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f8
> > > > [ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271)
> > > > [ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094)
> > > > [ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59)
> > > > [ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088)
> > > > [ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164)
> > > > [ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230)
> > > > [ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041)
> > > > [ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238)
> > > > [ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1))
> > > > [ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459)
> > > > [ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94)
> > > > [ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45 fs/kernel_read_file.c:186)
> > > > [ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207)
> > > > [ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189)
> > > > [ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 arch/x86/entry/common.c:132)
> > > > [ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419)
> > > >
> > > > To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for
> > > > control device anymore.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: c8a6153b6c59 ("vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace")
> > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 7 +++----
> > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > > index f85d1a08ed87..160e40d03084 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > > > @@ -1344,9 +1344,9 @@ static int vduse_create_dev(struct vduse_dev_config *config,
> > > >
> > > > dev->minor = ret;
> > > > dev->msg_timeout = VDUSE_MSG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
> > > > - dev->dev = device_create(vduse_class, NULL,
> > > > - MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
> > > > - dev, "%s", config->name);
> > > > + dev->dev = device_create_with_groups(vduse_class, NULL,
> > > > + MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
> > > > + dev, vduse_dev_groups, "%s", config->name);
> > > > if (IS_ERR(dev->dev)) {
> > > > ret = PTR_ERR(dev->dev);
> > > > goto err_dev;
> > > > @@ -1595,7 +1595,6 @@ static int vduse_init(void)
> > > > return PTR_ERR(vduse_class);
> > > >
> > > > vduse_class->devnode = vduse_devnode;
> > > > - vduse_class->dev_groups = vduse_dev_groups;
> > >
> > > Ok, this looks much better.
> > >
> > > But wow, there are some problems in this code overall. I see a number
> > > of flat-out-wrong things in there that should have been caught by code
> > > reviews. Some examples:
> > > - empty release() callbacks. That is a huge sign the code
> > > design is wrong and broken and you are just trying to make the
> > > driver core quiet for some reason. The documentation in the
> > > kernel explains why this is not ok.
> >
> > Sorry, I failed to find the documentation. Do you mean we should
> > remove the empty release() callbacks?
>
> Yes, why are they needed?
>
> (hint, retorical question, you added them to remove the driver core
> warning when the device is removed, which means someone added them just
> because they thought that their code could ignore the hints that the
> driver core was telling them.)
>
OK, I see.
> Please properly free the memory here.
>
One question is how to deal with the case if the device/kobject is
defined as a static variable. We should not need to free any resources
in this case. Or do you suggest just using dynamic allocation here?
> > > - __module_get(THIS_MODULE); That's racy, buggy, and doesn't do
> > > what you think it does. Please never ever ever do that. It
> > > too is a sign of a broken design.
> >
> > I don't find a good way to remove it. We have to make sure the module
> > can't be removed until all vduse devices are destroyed.
>
> That will happen automatically when the module is removed.
>
> > And I think __module_get(THIS_MODULE) should be safe in our case since
> > we always call it when we have a reference from open().
>
> What happened if someone removed the module _right before_ this was
> called? You can not grab your own reference count safely.
>
I don't get you here. We should already grab a reference count from
open() before calling this. So it should fail if someone tries to
remove the module at this time.
> Please just remove it, it's not needed and is broken. There should not
> be any reason that the module can not be unloaded, UNLESS a file handle
> is open, and you properly handle that already.
>
But in our case, I think we should prevent unloading the module If we
already created some vduse devices via /dev/vduse/control (note that
the control device's file handle could be closed after device
creation). Otherwise, we might get some crashes when accessing those
created vduse devices.
Thanks,
Yongji
