Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] scsi: set timed out out mq requests to complete

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:52:17PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 08:37 -0600, Keith Busch wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
index 8932ae81a15a..2715cdaa669c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c

@@ -296,6 +296,20 @@ enum blk_eh_timer_return scsi_times_out(struct request *req)
 		rtn = host->hostt->eh_timed_out(scmd);
 
 	if (rtn == BLK_EH_DONE) {
+		/*
+		 * For blk-mq, we must set the request state to complete now
+		 * before sending the request to the scsi error handler. This
+		 * will prevent a use-after-free in the event the LLD manages
+		 * to complete the request before the error handler finishes
+		 * processing this timed out request.
+		 *
+		 * If the request was already completed, then the LLD beat the
+		 * time out handler from transferring the request to the scsi
+		 * error handler. In that case we can return immediately as no
+		 * further action is required.
+		 */
+		if (req->q->mq_ops && !blk_mq_mark_complete(req))
+			return rtn;
 		if (scsi_abort_command(scmd) != SUCCESS) {
 			set_host_byte(scmd, DID_TIME_OUT);
 			scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd);

Hello Keith,

What will happen if a completion occurs after scsi_times_out() has started and
before or during the host->hostt->eh_timed_out()? Can that cause a use-after-free
in .eh_timed_out()? Can that cause .eh_timed_out() to return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER
when it should return BLK_EH_DONE? Can that cause blk_mq_rq_timed_out() to call
blk_add_timer() when that function shouldn't be called?

That's what the request's refcount protects. The whole point was that
driver returning RESET_TIMER doesn't lose the completion. In the worst
case scenario, the blk-mq timeout work spends some CPU cycles re-arming
a timer that it didn't need to.