Re: bcache: kernel NULL pointer dereference since 6.1.39

[Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>]

> 2023年11月24日 21:55，Markus Weippert <markus@gekmihesg.de> 写道：
> 
> On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 21:46 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 2023年11月24日 21:29，Markus Weippert <markus@gekmihesg.de> 写道：
>>> 
>>>> On 23.11.23 14:53, Stefan Förster wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> starting with kernel 6.1.39, we see the following error message
>>>>> with
>>>>> heavy I/O loads. We needed to revert
>>>> 
>>>> Thx for the report. I assume that problem still occurs with the
>>>> latest
>>>> 6.1.y kernel?
>>>> 
>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.1.39&id=68118c339c6e1e16ae017bef160dbe28a27ae9c8
>>>> 
>>>> FWIW, that is mainline commit 028ddcac477b69 ("bcache: Remove
>>>> unnecessary NULL point check in node allocations") [v6.5-rc1].
>>>> 
>>>> Did a quick check and noticed a fix for that change was recently
>>>> mainlined as f72f4312d43883 ("bcache: replace a mistaken IS_ERR()
>>>> by
>>>> IS_ERR_OR_NULL() in btree_gc_coalesce()") [v6.7-rc2-post]:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231118163852.9692-1-colyli@suse.de/
>>>> 
>>>> It is expected to soon be interegrated into a 6.1.y kernel.
>>>> 
>>>> But maybe it's something else. I CCed the involved people, they
>>>> might
>>>> know.
>>> 
>>> We applied f72f4312d43883 to the current Debian kernel (based on
>>> 6.1.55) but it didn't help, same stack trace.
>>> Looking at the description, __bch_btree_node_alloc() should never
>>> be
>>> able to return NULL anyway after
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.1.39&id=7ecea5ce3dc17339c280c75b58ac93d8c8620d9f
>>> But I didn't verify all callers, so this might still be correct, if
>>> it's not always initialized with the return value of
>>> __bch_btree_node_alloc().
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I think we fixed it by applying this:
>>> 
>>> diff -Naurp a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
>>> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c 2023-09-23 11:11:13.000000000 +0200
>>> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c 2023-11-24 13:13:09.840013759 +0100
>>> @@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ out_nocoalesce:
>>> bch_keylist_free(&keylist);
>>> 
>>> for (i = 0; i < nodes; i++)
>>> - if (!IS_ERR(new_nodes[i])) {
>>> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new_nodes[i])) {
>>> btree_node_free(new_nodes[i]);
>>> rw_unlock(true, new_nodes[i]);
>>> }
>>> 
>> 
>> The above change is what commit f72f4312d43883 ("bcache: replace a
>> mistaken IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() in btree_gc_coalesce()” does.
> 
> But f72f4312d43883 reverts @@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@, while the patch we
> applied reverts @@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ instead.
> Applying f72f4312d43883 didn't help for us.
> 

OK, I know what you mean.  Yes, your fix is necessary too.

Would you like to post patch for your fix?

Thanks.

Coly Li


>> 
>> Although the above patch is suggested to go into 6.5+ kernel, for
>> this condition it should go into all stable kernels where commit
>> 028ddcac477b69 ("bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in node
>> allocations”) were merged into.
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