From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joseph Qi Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:06:29 +0800 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] o2dlm: fix NULL pointer dereference in o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper In-Reply-To: <1389403153-4220-1-git-send-email-srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> References: <1389403153-4220-1-git-send-email-srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> Message-ID: <52D4B7C5.7040409@huawei.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On 2014/1/11 9:19, Srinivas Eeda wrote: > From: Srinivas Eeda > > A tiny race between BAST and unlock message causes the NULL dereference. > > A node sends an unlock request to master and receives a response. Before > processing the response it receives a BAST from the master. Since both requests > are processed by different threads it creates a race. While the BAST is being > processed, lock can get freed by unlock code. > > This patch makes bast to return immediately if lock is found but unlock is > pending. The code should handle this race. We also have to fix master node to > skip sending BAST after receiving unlock message. > > Below is the crash stack > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048 > IP: [] o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper+0xd/0x16 > [] dlm_do_local_bast+0x8e/0x97 [ocfs2_dlm] > [] dlm_proxy_ast_handler+0x838/0x87e [ocfs2_dlm] > [] o2net_process_message+0x395/0x5b8 [ocfs2_nodemanager] > [] o2net_rx_until_empty+0x762/0x90d [ocfs2_nodemanager] > [] worker_thread+0x14d/0x1ed > > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Eeda > --- > fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c | 9 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c > index b46278f..dbc6cee 100644 > --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c > +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c > @@ -385,8 +385,13 @@ int dlm_proxy_ast_handler(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32 len, void *data, > head = &res->granted; > > list_for_each_entry(lock, head, list) { > - if (lock->ml.cookie == cookie) > - goto do_ast; > + /* if lock is found but unlock is pending ignore the bast */ > + if (lock->ml.cookie == cookie) { > + if (lock->unlock_pending) > + break; > + else > + goto do_ast; > + } > } > > mlog(0, "Got %sast for unknown lock! cookie=%u:%llu, name=%.*s, " > I found you sent a version on Jan 30, 2012. https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2012-January/008469.html Compared with the old version, this version only saves a little bit CPU, am I right?