Patch "Revert "dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls"" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Revert "dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls"

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     revert-dm-mpath-fix-stalls-when-handling-invalid-ioctls.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 47796938c46b943d157ac8a6f9ed4e3b98b83cf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:24:23 -0200
Subject: Revert "dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls"

From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 47796938c46b943d157ac8a6f9ed4e3b98b83cf4 upstream.

This reverts commit a1989b330093578ea5470bea0a00f940c444c466.

That commit introduced a regression at least for the case of the SG_IO ioctl()
running without CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability (e.g., unprivileged users) when there
are no active paths: the ioctl() fails with the ENOTTY errno immediately rather
than blocking due to queue_if_no_path until a path becomes active, for example.

That case happens to be exercised by QEMU KVM guests with 'scsi-block' devices
(qemu "-device scsi-block" [1], libvirt "<disk type='block' device='lun'>" [2])
from multipath devices; which leads to SCSI/filesystem errors in such a guest.

More general scenarios can hit that regression too. The following demonstration
employs a SG_IO ioctl() with a standard SCSI INQUIRY command for this objective
(some output & user changes omitted for brevity and comments added for clarity).

Reverting that commit restores normal operation (queueing) in failing scenarios;
tested on linux-next (next-20151022).

1) Test-case is based on sg_simple0 [3] (just SG_IO; remove SG_GET_VERSION_NUM)

    $ cat sg_simple0.c
    ... see [3] ...
    $ sed '/SG_GET_VERSION_NUM/,/}/d' sg_simple0.c > sgio_inquiry.c
    $ gcc sgio_inquiry.c -o sgio_inquiry

2) The ioctl() works fine with active paths present.

    # multipath -l 85ag56
    85ag56 (...) dm-19 IBM     ,2145
    size=60G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
    |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=0 status=active
    | |- 8:0:11:0  sdz  65:144  active undef running
    | `- 9:0:9:0   sdbf 67:144  active undef running
    `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=0 status=enabled
      |- 8:0:12:0  sdae 65:224  active undef running
      `- 9:0:12:0  sdbo 68:32   active undef running

    $ ./sgio_inquiry /dev/mapper/85ag56
    Some of the INQUIRY command's response:
        IBM       2145              0000
    INQUIRY duration=0 millisecs, resid=0

3) The ioctl() fails with ENOTTY errno with _no_ active paths present,
   for unprivileged users (rather than blocking due to queue_if_no_path).

    # for path in $(multipath -l 85ag56 | grep -o 'sd[a-z]\+'); \
          do multipathd -k"fail path $path"; done

    # multipath -l 85ag56
    85ag56 (...) dm-19 IBM     ,2145
    size=60G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
    |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=0 status=enabled
    | |- 8:0:11:0  sdz  65:144  failed undef running
    | `- 9:0:9:0   sdbf 67:144  failed undef running
    `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=0 status=enabled
      |- 8:0:12:0  sdae 65:224  failed undef running
      `- 9:0:12:0  sdbo 68:32   failed undef running

    $ ./sgio_inquiry /dev/mapper/85ag56
    sg_simple0: Inquiry SG_IO ioctl error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

4) dmesg shows that scsi_verify_blk_ioctl() failed for SG_IO (0x2285);
   it returns -ENOIOCTLCMD, later replaced with -ENOTTY in vfs_ioctl().

    $ dmesg
    <...>
    [] device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 65:144.
    [] device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 67:144.
    [] device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 65:224.
    [] device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 68:32.
    [] sgio_inquiry: sending ioctl 2285 to a partition!

5) The ioctl() only works if the SYS_CAP_RAWIO capability is present
   (then queueing happens -- in this example, queue_if_no_path is set);
   this is due to a conditional check in scsi_verify_blk_ioctl().

    # capsh --drop=cap_sys_rawio -- -c './sgio_inquiry /dev/mapper/85ag56'
    sg_simple0: Inquiry SG_IO ioctl error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

    # ./sgio_inquiry /dev/mapper/85ag56 &
    [1] 72830

    # cat /proc/72830/stack
    [<c00000171c0df700>] 0xc00000171c0df700
    [<c000000000015934>] __switch_to+0x204/0x350
    [<c000000000152d4c>] msleep+0x5c/0x80
    [<c00000000077dfb0>] dm_blk_ioctl+0x70/0x170
    [<c000000000487c40>] blkdev_ioctl+0x2b0/0x9b0
    [<c0000000003128e4>] block_ioctl+0x64/0xd0
    [<c0000000002dd3b0>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x490/0x780
    [<c0000000002dd774>] SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0
    [<c000000000009358>] system_call+0x38/0xd0

6) This is the function call chain exercised in this analysis:

SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioctl, <...>) @ fs/ioctl.c
    -> do_vfs_ioctl()
        -> vfs_ioctl()
            ...
            error = filp->f_op->unlocked_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
            ...
                -> dm_blk_ioctl() @ drivers/md/dm.c
                    -> multipath_ioctl() @ drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
                        ...
                        (bdev = NULL, due to no active paths)
                        ...
                        if (!bdev || <...>) {
                            int err = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd);
                            if (err)
                                r = err;
                        }
                        ...
                            -> scsi_verify_blk_ioctl() @ block/scsi_ioctl.c
                                ...
                                if (bd && bd == bd->bd_contains) // not taken (bd = NULL)
                                    return 0;
                                ...
                                if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) // not taken (unprivileged user)
                                    return 0;
                                ...
                                printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
                                           "%s: sending ioctl %x to a partition!\n" <...>);

                                return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
                            <-
                        ...
                        return r ? : <...>
                    <-
            ...
            if (error == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
                error = -ENOTTY;
             out:
                return error;
            ...

Links:
[1] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=336a6915bc7089fb20fea4ba99972ad9a97c5f52
[2] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks (see 'disk' -> 'device')
[3] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/pexample.html (Revision 1.2, 2002-05-03)

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -1569,11 +1569,8 @@ static int multipath_ioctl(struct dm_tar
 	/*
 	 * Only pass ioctls through if the device sizes match exactly.
 	 */
-	if (!bdev || ti->len != i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> SECTOR_SHIFT) {
-		int err = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd);
-		if (err)
-			r = err;
-	}
+	if (!r && ti->len != i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> SECTOR_SHIFT)
+		r = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd);
 
 	if (r == -ENOTCONN && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&m->lock, flags);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.3/revert-dm-mpath-fix-stalls-when-handling-invalid-ioctls.patch