Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] cxl/port: Fix use-after-free, permit out-of-order decoder shutdown

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Dan Williams wrote:
> In support of investigating an initialization failure report [1],
> cxl_test was updated to register mock memory-devices after the mock
> root-port/bus device had been registered. That led to cxl_test crashing
> with a use-after-free bug with the following signature:
> 
>     cxl_port_attach_region: cxl region3: cxl_host_bridge.0:port3 decoder3.0 add: mem0:decoder7.0 @ 0 next: cxl_switch_uport.0 nr_eps: 1 nr_targets: 1
>     cxl_port_attach_region: cxl region3: cxl_host_bridge.0:port3 decoder3.0 add: mem4:decoder14.0 @ 1 next: cxl_switch_uport.0 nr_eps: 2 nr_targets: 1
>     cxl_port_setup_targets: cxl region3: cxl_switch_uport.0:port6 target[0] = cxl_switch_dport.0 for mem0:decoder7.0 @ 0
> 1)  cxl_port_setup_targets: cxl region3: cxl_switch_uport.0:port6 target[1] = cxl_switch_dport.4 for mem4:decoder14.0 @ 1
>     [..]
>     cxld_unregister: cxl decoder14.0:
>     cxl_region_decode_reset: cxl_region region3:
>     mock_decoder_reset: cxl_port port3: decoder3.0 reset
> 2)  mock_decoder_reset: cxl_port port3: decoder3.0: out of order reset, expected decoder3.1
>     cxl_endpoint_decoder_release: cxl decoder14.0:
>     [..]
>     cxld_unregister: cxl decoder7.0:
> 3)  cxl_region_decode_reset: cxl_region region3:
>     Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6bc3: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
>     [..]
>     RIP: 0010:to_cxl_port+0x8/0x60 [cxl_core]
>     [..]
>     Call Trace:
>      <TASK>
>      cxl_region_decode_reset+0x69/0x190 [cxl_core]
>      cxl_region_detach+0xe8/0x210 [cxl_core]
>      cxl_decoder_kill_region+0x27/0x40 [cxl_core]
>      cxld_unregister+0x5d/0x60 [cxl_core]
> 
> At 1) a region has been established with 2 endpoint decoders (7.0 and
> 14.0). Those endpoints share a common switch-decoder in the topology
> (3.0). At teardown, 2), decoder14.0 is the first to be removed and hits
> the "out of order reset case" in the switch decoder. The effect though
> is that region3 cleanup is aborted leaving it in-tact and
> referencing decoder14.0. At 3) the second attempt to teardown region3
> trips over the stale decoder14.0 object which has long since been
> deleted.
> 
> The fix here is to recognize that the CXL specification places no
> mandate on in-order shutdown of switch-decoders, the driver enforces
> in-order allocation, and hardware enforces in-order commit. So, rather
> than fail and leave objects dangling, always remove them.
> 
> In support of making cxl_region_decode_reset() always succeed,
> cxl_region_invalidate_memregion() failures are turned into warnings.
> Crashing the kernel is ok there since system integrity is at risk if
> caches cannot be managed around physical address mutation events like
> CXL region destruction.
> 
> A new device_for_each_child_reverse_from() is added to cleanup
> port->commit_end after all dependent decoders have been disabled. In
> other words if decoders are allocated 0->1->2 and disabled 1->2->0 then
> port->commit_end only decrements from 2 after 2 has been disabled, and
> it decrements all the way to zero since 1 was disabled previously.
> 
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/20241004212504.1246-1-gourry@xxxxxxxxxx [1]
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 176baefb2eb5 ("cxl/hdm: Commit decoder state to hardware")
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>


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