Recently I receive a bug report that on Linux v3.0 based kerenl, hot add
disk to a md linear device causes kernel crash at linear_congested(). From
the crash image analysis, I find in linear_congested(), mddev->raid_disks
contains value N, but conf->disks[] only has N-1 pointers available. Then
a NULL pointer deference crashes the kernel.
There is a race between linear_add() and linear_congested(), RCU stuffs
used in these two functions cannot avoid the race. Since Linuv v4.0
RCU code is replaced by introducing mddev_suspend(). After checking the
upstream code, it seems linear_congested() is not called in
generic_make_request() code patch, so mddev_suspend() cannot provent it
from being called. The possible race still exists.
Here I explain how the race still exists in current code. For a machine
has many CPUs, on one CPU, linear_add() is called to add a hard disk to a
md linear device; at the same time on other CPU, linear_congested() is
called to detect whether this md linear device is congested before issuing
an I/O request onto it.
Now I use a possible code execution time sequence to demo how the possible
race happens,
seq linear_add() linear_congested()
0 conf=mddev->private
1 oldconf=mddev->private
2 mddev->raid_disks++
3 for (i=0; i<mddev->raid_disks;i++)
4 bdev_get_queue(conf->disks[i].rdev->bdev)
5 mddev->private=newconf
In linear_add() mddev->raid_disks is increased in time seq 2, and on
another CPU in linear_congested() the for-loop iterates conf->disks[i] by
the increased mddev->raid_disks in time seq 3,4. But conf with one more
element (which is a pointer to struct dev_info type) to conf->disks[] is
not updated yet, accessing its structure member in time seq 4 will cause a
NULL pointer deference fault.
To fix this race, there are 2 parts of modification in the patch,
1) Add 'int raid_disks' in struct linear_conf, as a copy of
mddev->raid_disks. It is initialized in linear_conf(), always being
consistent with pointers number of 'struct dev_info disks[]'. When
iterating conf->disks[] in linear_congested(), use conf->raid_disks to
replace mddev->raid_disks in the for-loop, then NULL pointer deference
will not happen again.
2) RCU stuffs are back again, and use kfree_rcu() in linear_add() to
free oldconf memory. Because oldconf may be referenced as mddev->private
in linear_congested(), kfree_rcu() makes sure that its memory will not
be released until no one uses it any more.
Also some code comments are added in this patch, to make this modification
to be easier understandable.
This patch can be applied for kernels since v4.0 after commit:
3be260cc18 ("md/linear: remove rcu protections in favour of
suspend/resume"). But this bug is reported on Linux v3.0 based kernel, for
people who maintain kernels before Linux v4.0, they need to do some back
back port to this patch.
Changelog:
- V3: add 'int raid_disks' in struct linear_conf, and use kfree_rcu() to
replace rcu_call() in linear_add().
- v2: add RCU stuffs by suggestion from Shaohua and Neil.
- v1: initial effort.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The typedefs are just annoying. 'mdk' probably refers to 'md_k.h'
which used to be an include file that defined this thing.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
I don't know what I was thinking putting 'rcu' after a dynamically
sized array! The array could still be in use when we call rcu_free()
(That is the point) so we mustn't corrupt it.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Current, when we update the 'conf' structure, when adding a
drive to a linear array, we keep the old version around until
the array is finally stopped, as it is not safe to free it
immediately.
Now that we have rcu protection on all accesses to 'conf',
we can use call_rcu to free it more promptly.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Remove num_sectors from dev_info and replace start_sector with
end_sector. This makes a lot of comparisons much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Sandeep K Sinha <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Get rid of sector_div and hash table for linear raid and replace
with a linear search in which_dev.
The hash table adds a lot of complexity for little if any gain.
Ultimately a binary search will be used which will have smaller
cache foot print, a similar number of memory access, and no
divisions.
Signed-off-by: Sandeep K Sinha <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Having a macro just to cast a void* isn't really helpful.
I would must rather see that we are simply de-referencing ->private,
than have to know what the macro does.
So open code the macro everywhere and remove the pointless cast.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h
Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remaining use was to #include
other files.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Move the headers with the local structures for the disciplines and
bitmap.h into drivers/md/ so that they are more easily grepable for
hacking and not far away. md.h is left where it is for now as there
are some uses from the outside.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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