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[PATCH] blk-wbt: prevent NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_fn

From: Andrea Righi <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-19 09:20:33
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

The timer callback used to evaluate if the latency is exceeded can be
executed after the corresponding disk has been released, causing the
following NULL pointer dereference:

[ 119.987108] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098
[ 119.987617] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 119.987971] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 119.988325] PGD 7c4a4067 P4D 7c4a4067 PUD 7bf63067 PMD 0
[ 119.988697] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 119.988959] CPU: 1 PID: 9353 Comm: cloud-init Not tainted 5.15-rc5+arighi #rc5+arighi
[ 119.989520] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[ 119.990055] RIP: 0010:wb_timer_fn+0x44/0x3c0
[ 119.990376] Code: 41 8b 9c 24 98 00 00 00 41 8b 94 24 b8 00 00 00 41 8b 84 24 d8 00 00 00 4d 8b 74 24 28 01 d3 01 c3 49 8b 44 24 60 48 8b 40 78 <4c> 8b b8 98 00 00 00 4d 85 f6 0f 84 c4 00 00 00 49 83 7c 24 30 00
[ 119.991578] RSP: 0000:ffffb5f580957da8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 119.991937] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004
[ 119.992412] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88f476d7f780
[ 119.992895] RBP: ffffb5f580957dd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 119.993371] R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff88f476c84500
[ 119.993847] R13: ffff88f4434390c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88f4bdc98c00
[ 119.994323] FS: 00007fb90bcd9c00(0000) GS:ffff88f4bdc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 119.994952] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 119.995380] CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 000000007c0d6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 119.995906] Call Trace:
[ 119.996130] ? blk_stat_free_callback_rcu+0x30/0x30
[ 119.996505] blk_stat_timer_fn+0x138/0x140
[ 119.996830] call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x100
[ 119.997136] __run_timers.part.0+0x1d1/0x240
[ 119.997470] ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x11/0x20
[ 119.997826] ? ktime_get+0x3e/0xa0
[ 119.998110] ? native_apic_msr_write+0x2c/0x30
[ 119.998456] ? lapic_next_event+0x20/0x30
[ 119.998779] ? clockevents_program_event+0x94/0xf0
[ 119.999150] run_timer_softirq+0x2a/0x50
[ 119.999465] __do_softirq+0xcb/0x26f
[ 119.999764] irq_exit_rcu+0x8c/0xb0
[ 120.000057] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x90
[ 120.000429] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0x20
[ 120.000836] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20

In this case simply return from the timer callback (no action
required) to prevent the NULL pointer dereference.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1947557
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YWRNVTk9N8K0RMst@arighi-desktop/ (local)
Fixes: 34dbad5d26e2 ("blk-stat: convert to callback-based statistics reporting")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <redacted>
---

NOTE: I'm not sure if this is more of a bandaid rather than a proper
fix, but I have a reliable reproducer and with this applied I can
prevent the kernel from exploding badly.

---
 block/blk-wbt.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-wbt.c b/block/blk-wbt.c
index 874c1c37bf0c..0c119be0e813 100644
--- a/block/blk-wbt.c
+++ b/block/blk-wbt.c
@@ -357,6 +357,9 @@ static void wb_timer_fn(struct blk_stat_callback *cb)
 	unsigned int inflight = wbt_inflight(rwb);
 	int status;
 
+	if (!rwb->rqos.q->disk)
+		return;
+
 	status = latency_exceeded(rwb, cb->stat);
 
 	trace_wbt_timer(rwb->rqos.q->disk->bdi, status, rqd->scale_step,
-- 
2.32.0
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