From: Cengiz Can <cengiz@kernel.wtf>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Cengiz Can <cengiz@kernel.wtf>
Subject: [PATCH v2] blktrace: fix dereference after null check
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 13:58:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200304105818.11781-1-cengiz@kernel.wtf> (raw)
There was a recent change in blktrace.c that added a RCU protection to
`q->blk_trace` in order to fix a use-after-free issue during access.
However the change missed an edge case that can lead to dereferencing of
`bt` pointer even when it's NULL:
Coverity static analyzer marked this as a FORWARD_NULL issue with CID
1460458.
```
/kernel/trace/blktrace.c: 1904 in sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store()
1898 ret = 0;
1899 if (bt == NULL)
1900 ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev);
1901
1902 if (ret == 0) {
1903 if (attr == &dev_attr_act_mask)
>>> CID 1460458: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL)
>>> Dereferencing null pointer "bt".
1904 bt->act_mask = value;
1905 else if (attr == &dev_attr_pid)
1906 bt->pid = value;
1907 else if (attr == &dev_attr_start_lba)
1908 bt->start_lba = value;
1909 else if (attr == &dev_attr_end_lba)
```
Added a reassignment with RCU annotation to fix the issue.
Fixes: c780e86dd48 ("blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU")
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz@kernel.wtf>
---
Patch Changelog
* v2: Added RCU annotation to assignment
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 4560878f0bac..ca39dc3230cb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -1896,8 +1896,11 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
}
ret = 0;
- if (bt == NULL)
+ if (bt == NULL) {
ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev);
+ bt = rcu_dereference_protected(q->blk_trace,
+ lockdep_is_held(&q->blk_trace_mutex));
+ }
if (ret == 0) {
if (attr == &dev_attr_act_mask)
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-03-04 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 10:58 Cengiz Can [this message]
2020-03-05 8:47 ` Ming Lei
2020-03-05 10:13 ` Bob Liu
2020-03-05 14:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-05 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
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