Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in blk_mq_map_swqueue
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: 2020-03-27 02:52:11
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On 2020-03-26 17:19, Dongli Zhang wrote:
I think the issue is because of line 2827, that is, the q->nr_hw_queues is
updated too earlier. It is still possible the init would fail later.
2809 static void blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
2810 struct request_queue *q)
2811 {
2812 int i, j, end;
2813 struct blk_mq_hw_ctx **hctxs = q->queue_hw_ctx;
2814
2815 if (q->nr_hw_queues < set->nr_hw_queues) {
2816 struct blk_mq_hw_ctx **new_hctxs;
2817
2818 new_hctxs = kcalloc_node(set->nr_hw_queues,
2819 sizeof(*new_hctxs), GFP_KERNEL,
2820 set->numa_node);
2821 if (!new_hctxs)
2822 return;
2823 if (hctxs)
2824 memcpy(new_hctxs, hctxs, q->nr_hw_queues *
2825 sizeof(*hctxs));
2826 q->queue_hw_ctx = new_hctxs;
2827 q->nr_hw_queues = set->nr_hw_queues;
2828 kfree(hctxs);
2829 hctxs = new_hctxs;
2830 }
Which kernel tree does this syzbot report refer to? Commit
d0930bb8f46b ("blk-mq: Fix a recently introduced regression in
blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs()") in Jens' tree removed line 2827 shown above.
Thanks,
Bart.