[dm-devel] [PATCH][BUGFIX] dm-raid1: fix NULL pointer dereference in suspend (v2)

Takahiro Yasui tyasui at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 23:23:41 UTC 2010


This is an update patch of I sent January 6th.

  dm-raid1: fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend procedure
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2010-January/msg00025.html


* Issue

On 2.6.33-rc1 kernel, I hit the bug when I suspended the failed
mirror by dmsetup command.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000020
IP: [<f94f38e2>] dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash]
...
EIP: 0060:[<f94f38e2>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
EIP is at dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash]
EAX: 00000286 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000286 EDX: 00000000
ESI: eff79eac EDI: eff79e80 EBP: f6915cd4 ESP: f6915cc4
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process dmsetup (pid: 2849, ti=f6914000 task=eff03e80 task.ti=f6914000)
 ...
Call Trace:
 [<f9530af6>] ? mirror_end_io+0x53/0x1b1 [dm_mirror]
 [<f9413104>] ? clone_endio+0x4d/0xa2 [dm_mod]
 [<f9530aa3>] ? mirror_end_io+0x0/0x1b1 [dm_mirror]
 [<f94130b7>] ? clone_endio+0x0/0xa2 [dm_mod]
 [<c02d6bcb>] ? bio_endio+0x28/0x2b
 [<f952f303>] ? hold_bio+0x2d/0x62 [dm_mirror]
 [<f952f942>] ? mirror_presuspend+0xeb/0xf7 [dm_mirror]
 [<c02aa3e2>] ? vmap_page_range+0xb/0xd
 [<f9414c8d>] ? suspend_targets+0x2d/0x3b [dm_mod]
 [<f9414ca9>] ? dm_table_presuspend_targets+0xe/0x10 [dm_mod]
 [<f941456f>] ? dm_suspend+0x4d/0x150 [dm_mod]
 [<f941767d>] ? dev_suspend+0x55/0x18a [dm_mod]
 [<c0343762>] ? _copy_from_user+0x42/0x56
 [<f9417fb0>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x22c/0x281 [dm_mod]
 [<f9417628>] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x18a [dm_mod]
 [<f9417d84>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x281 [dm_mod]
 [<c02c3c4b>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x85
 [<c02c422c>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4cb/0x516
 [<c02c42b7>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a
 [<c0202858>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28


* Source Code Analysis

When recovery process of a region failed, dm_rh_recovery_end() function
changes the state of the region from RM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC.
When recovery_complete() is executed between dm_rh_update_states() and
dm_writes() in do_mirror(), bios are processed with the region state,
DM_RH_NOSYNC. However, the region data is freed without checking its
pending count when dm_rh_update_states() is called next time.

When bios are finished by mirror_end_io(), __rh_lookup() in dm_rh_dec()
returns NULL even though a valid return value are expected.


* Solution

Remove the state change of the recovery failed region from DM_RH_RECOVERING
to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end(). We can remove the state change
because:

  - If the region data has been released by dm_rh_update_states(),
    a new region data is created with the state of DM_RH_NOSYNC, and
    bios are processed according to the DM_RH_NOSYNC state.
    
  - If the region data has not been released by dm_rh_update_states(),
    a state of the region is DM_RH_RECOVERING and bios are put in the
    delayed_bio list.


* Notes

The flag change from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end()
was added in the following commit:

dm raid1: handle resync failures
author	Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow at redhat.com>	
	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:04 +0000 (17:29 +0100)
http://git.kernel.org/linus/f44db678edcc6f4c2779ac43f63f0b9dfa28b724


I appreciate your review.

Thanks,
Taka


Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.33-rc1-dm/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.33-rc1-dm.orig/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
+++ linux-2.6.33-rc1-dm/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c
@@ -660,10 +660,9 @@ void dm_rh_recovery_end(struct dm_region
 	spin_lock_irq(&rh->region_lock);
 	if (success)
 		list_add(&reg->list, &reg->rh->recovered_regions);
-	else {
-		reg->state = DM_RH_NOSYNC;
+	else
 		list_add(&reg->list, &reg->rh->failed_recovered_regions);
-	}
+
 	spin_unlock_irq(&rh->region_lock);
 
 	rh->wakeup_workers(rh->context);

-- 
Takahiro Yasui
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.




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