On 2018/06/18 22:46, Jan Kara wrote: > syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=e0818ccb7e46190b3f1038b0c794299208ed4206 line is missing. > wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was > WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that > unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects. > > The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus > drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of > wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop > iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already > passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown() > from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although > wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are > also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with > cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues: > > CPU1 CPU2 > cgwb_bdi_unregister() > cgwb_kill(*slot); > > cgwb_release() > queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work); > cgwb_release_workfn() > wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...) > spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); > wb_shutdown(wb); > ... > kfree_rcu(wb, rcu); > wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free > > We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from > cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. That > way we also no longer need synchronization using WB_shutting_down as the > mutex provides it for CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK case and without > CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK wb_shutdown() can be called only once from > bdi_unregister(). Wow, this patch removes WB_shutting_down. A bit of worry for me is how long will this mutex_lock() sleep, for if there are a lot of wb objects to shutdown, sequentially doing wb_shutdown() might block someone's mutex_lock() for longer than khungtaskd's timeout period (typically 120 seconds) ? > > Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+4a7438e774b21ddd8...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> > --- > include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 2 +- > mm/backing-dev.c | 20 +++++++------------- > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
