[PATCH] block: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_rq_timed_out()

[Yufen Yu]

There is a race condition between timeout check and completion for
flush request as follow:

timeout_work    issue flush      issue flush
                blk_insert_flush
                                 blk_insert_flush
blk_mq_timeout_work
                blk_kick_flush

blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter
blk_mq_check_expired(flush_rq)

                __blk_mq_end_request
               flush_end_io
               blk_kick_flush
               blk_rq_init(flush_rq)
               memset(flush_rq, 0)

blk_mq_timed_out
BUG_ON flush_rq->q->mq_ops

For normal request, we need to get a tag and then allocate corresponding 
request.
Thus, the request cannot be reallocated before the tag have been free.
Commit 1d9bd5161ba ("blk-mq: replace timeout synchronization with a RCU and
generation based scheme") and commit 12f5b93145 ("blk-mq: Remove generation
seqeunce") can guarantee the consistency of timeout handle and completion.

However, 'flush_rq' have been forgotten. 'flush_rq' allocation management
dependents on flush implemention mechanism. Each hctx has only one 'flush_rq'.
When a flush request have completed, the next flush request will hold the 
'flush_rq'.
In the end, timeout handle may access the cleared 'flush_rq'.

We fix this problem by checking request refcount 'rq->ref', as normal request.
If the refcount is not zero, flush_end_io() return and wait the last holder
recall it. To record the request status, we add a new entry 'rq_status',
which will be used in flush_end_io().

Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyu...@huawei.com>
---
 block/blk-flush.c      | 8 ++++++++
 block/blk-mq.c         | 7 +++++--
 block/blk.h            | 5 +++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index aedd9320e605..359a7e1a0925 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -212,6 +212,14 @@ static void flush_end_io(struct request *flush_rq, 
blk_status_t error)
        struct blk_flush_queue *fq = blk_get_flush_queue(q, flush_rq->mq_ctx);
        struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
 
+       if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&flush_rq->ref)) {
+               flush_rq->rq_status = error;
+               return;
+       }
+
+       if (flush_rq->rq_status != BLK_STS_OK)
+               error = flush_rq->rq_status;
+
        /* release the tag's ownership to the req cloned from */
        spin_lock_irqsave(&fq->mq_flush_lock, flags);
        hctx = flush_rq->mq_hctx;
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 0835f4d8d42e..3d2b2c2e9cdf 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -905,9 +905,12 @@ static bool blk_mq_check_expired(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx 
*hctx,
         */
        if (blk_mq_req_expired(rq, next))
                blk_mq_rq_timed_out(rq, reserved);
-       if (refcount_dec_and_test(&rq->ref))
-               __blk_mq_free_request(rq);
 
+       if (is_flush_rq(rq, hctx)) {
+               rq->end_io(rq, 0);
+       } else if (refcount_dec_and_test(&rq->ref)) {
+               __blk_mq_free_request(rq);
+       }
        return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index de6b2e146d6e..f503ef9ad3e6 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ static inline void __blk_get_queue(struct request_queue *q)
        kobject_get(&q->kobj);
 }
 
+static inline bool
+is_flush_rq(struct request *req, struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) {
+       return hctx->fq->flush_rq == req;
+}
+
 struct blk_flush_queue *blk_alloc_flush_queue(struct request_queue *q,
                int node, int cmd_size, gfp_t flags);
 void blk_free_flush_queue(struct blk_flush_queue *q);
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 1ef375dafb1c..b1d05077e03f 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ struct request {
         */
        rq_end_io_fn *end_io;
        void *end_io_data;
+
+       blk_status_t rq_status;
 };
 
 static inline bool blk_op_is_scsi(unsigned int op)
-- 
2.17.2