[PATCH net v3] net/smc: Reset conn->lgr when link group registration fails

Wen Gu
2022-01-05T06:29:57Z

SMC connections might fail to be registered to a link group due to
things like unable to find a link to assign to in its creation. As
a result, connection creation will return a failure and most
resources related to the connection won't be applied or initialized,
such as conn->abort_work or conn->lnk.

If smc_conn_free() is invoked later, it will try to access the
resources related to the connection, which wasn't initialized, thus
causing a panic.

Here is an example, a SMC-R connection failed to be registered
to a link group and conn->lnk is NULL. The following crash will
happen if smc_conn_free() tries to access conn->lnk in
smc_cdc_tx_dismiss_slots().

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000168
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 PID: 68 Comm: kworker/4:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0-rc5+ #52
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:smc_wr_tx_dismiss_slots+0x1e/0xc0 [smc]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
smc_conn_free+0xd8/0x100 [smc]
smc_lgr_cleanup_early+0x15/0x90 [smc]
smc_listen_work+0x302/0x1230 [smc]
? process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0
? process_one_work+0x600/0x600
kthread+0x15d/0x1a0
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>

This patch tries to fix this by resetting conn->lgr to NULL if an
abnormal exit occurs in smc_lgr_register_conn(), thus avoiding the
crash caused by accessing the uninitialized resources in smc_conn_free().
And the new created link group will be terminated if smc connections
can't be registered to it.

Fixes: 56bc3b2094b4 ("net/smc: assign link to a new connection")
Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
---
v1->v2:
- Reset conn->lgr to NULL in smc_lgr_register_conn().
- Only free new created link group.
v2->v3:
- Using __smc_lgr_terminate() instead of smc_lgr_schedule_free_work()
for an immediate free.
---
net/smc/smc_core.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 412bc85..0201f99 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -171,8 +171,10 @@ static int smc_lgr_register_conn(struct smc_connection *conn, bool first)

if (!conn->lgr->is_smcd) {
rc = smcr_lgr_conn_assign_link(conn, first);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
+ conn->lgr = NULL;
return rc;
+ }
}
/* find a new alert_token_local value not yet used by some connection
* in this link group
@@ -1835,8 +1837,14 @@ int smc_conn_create(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini)
write_lock_bh(&lgr->conns_lock);
rc = smc_lgr_register_conn(conn, true);
write_unlock_bh(&lgr->conns_lock);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
+ spin_lock_bh(lgr_lock);
+ if (!list_empty(&lgr->list))
+ list_del_init(&lgr->list);
+ spin_unlock_bh(lgr_lock);
+ __smc_lgr_terminate(lgr, true);
goto out;
+ }
}
conn->local_tx_ctrl.common.type = SMC_CDC_MSG_TYPE;
conn->local_tx_ctrl.len = SMC_WR_TX_SIZE;
--
1.8.3.1