RE: nvmet_rdma crash - DISCONNECT event with NULL queue

["Steve Wise" <swise-7bPotxP6k4+P2YhJcF5u+vpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>]

> 
> >>> I just hit an nvmf target NULL pointer deref BUG after a few hours of
> > keep-alive
> >>> timeout testing.  It appears that nvmet_rdma_cm_handler() was called with
> >>> cm_id->qp == NULL, so the local nvmet_rdma_queue * variable queue is left
as
> >>> NULL.  But then nvmet_rdma_queue_disconnect() is called with queue == NULL
> >> which
> >>> causes the crash.
> >>
> >> AFAICT, the only way cm_id->qp is NULL is for a scenario we didn't even
> >> get to allocate a queue-pair (e.g. calling rdma_create_qp). The teardown
> >> paths does not nullify cm_id->qp...
> >
> > rdma_destroy_qp() nulls out cm_id->qp.
> 
> pphh, somehow managed to miss it...
> 
> So we have a case where we can call rdma_destroy_qp and
> then rdma_destroy_id but still get events on the cm_id...
> Not very nice...
> 
> So I think that the patch from Bart a few weeks ago was correct:
>

Not quite.  It just guards against a null queue for TIMEWAIT_EXIT, which is only
generated by the IB_CM.  
 
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c b/drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c
> index d1aea17..a61e47f 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c
> @@ -1354,9 +1354,12 @@ static int nvmet_rdma_cm_handler(struct
> rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
>   		break;
>   	case RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE:
>   	case RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED:
> -	case RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT:
>   		nvmet_rdma_queue_disconnect(queue);
>   		break;
> +	case RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT:
> +		if (queue)
> +			nvmet_rdma_queue_disconnect(queue);
> +		break;
>   	case RDMA_CM_EVENT_DEVICE_REMOVAL:
>   		ret = nvmet_rdma_device_removal(cm_id, queue);
>   		break;
> ---
> 
> In case this fixes the issue (as expected) I'll queue it up
> with a change log and a code comment on why we need to do
> this (and include all the relevant cases around it)...

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