blk-mq: Avoid race condition with uninitialized requests
This patch should fix the bug reported in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/249.
We have to initialize at least the atomic_flags and the cmd_flags when
allocating storage for the requests.
Otherwise blk_mq_timeout_check() might dereference uninitialized
pointers when racing with the creation of a request.
Also move the reset of cmd_flags for the initializing code to the point
where a request is freed. So we will never end up with pending flush
request indicators that might trigger dereferences of invalid pointers
in blk_mq_timeout_check().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index a13c40c..1583ed2 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@
if (tag != BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL) {
rq = data->hctx->tags->rqs[tag];
- rq->cmd_flags = 0;
if (blk_mq_tag_busy(data->hctx)) {
rq->cmd_flags = REQ_MQ_INFLIGHT;
atomic_inc(&data->hctx->nr_active);
@@ -258,6 +257,7 @@
if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_MQ_INFLIGHT)
atomic_dec(&hctx->nr_active);
+ rq->cmd_flags = 0;
clear_bit(REQ_ATOM_STARTED, &rq->atomic_flags);
blk_mq_put_tag(hctx, tag, &ctx->last_tag);
@@ -1410,6 +1410,8 @@
left -= to_do * rq_size;
for (j = 0; j < to_do; j++) {
tags->rqs[i] = p;
+ tags->rqs[i]->atomic_flags = 0;
+ tags->rqs[i]->cmd_flags = 0;
if (set->ops->init_request) {
if (set->ops->init_request(set->driver_data,
tags->rqs[i], hctx_idx, i,