Re: Block device direct read EIO handling broken?

Jens Axboe
2019-08-06T13:34:40Z

On 8/6/19 12:05 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2019/08/06 13:09, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 8/5/19 5:05 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> On 2019/08/06 7:05, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>> On 2019/08/06 6:59, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>>> On 2019/08/06 6:28, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/5/19 2:27 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2019/08/06 6:26, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In any case, looking again at this code, it looks like there is a
>>>>>>>>> problem with dio->size being incremented early, even for fragments
>>>>>>>>> that get BLK_QC_T_EAGAIN, because dio->size is being used in
>>>>>>>>> blkdev_bio_end_io(). So an incorrect size can be reported to user
>>>>>>>>> space in that case on completion (e.g. large asynchronous no-wait dio
>>>>>>>>> that cannot be issued in one go).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So maybe something like this ? (completely untested)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think that looks pretty good, I like not double accounting with
>>>>>>>> this_size and dio->size, and we retain the old style ordering for the
>>>>>>>> ret value.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you want a proper patch with real testing backup ? I can send that
>>>>>>> later today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah that'd be great, I like your approach better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking again, I think this is not it yet: dio->size is being referenced after
>>>>> submit_bio(), so blkdev_bio_end_io() may see the old value if the bio completes
>>>>> before dio->size increment. So the use-after-free is still there. And since
>>>>> blkdev_bio_end_io() processes completion to user space only when dio->ref
>>>>> becomes 0, adding an atomic_inc/dec(&dio->ref) over the loop would not help and
>>>>> does not cover the single BIO case. Any idea how to address this one ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> May be add a bio_get/put() over the 2 places that do submit_bio() would work,
>>>> for all cases (single/multi BIO, sync & async). E.g.:
>>>>
>>>> + bio_get(bio);
>>>> qc = submit_bio(bio);
>>>> if (qc == BLK_QC_T_EAGAIN) {
>>>> if (!dio->size)
>>>> ret = -EAGAIN;
>>>> + bio_put(bio);
>>>> goto error;
>>>> }
>>>> dio->size += bio_size;
>>>> + bio_put(bio);
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That does not work since the reference to dio->size in
>>> blkdev_bio_end_io() depends on atomic_dec_and_test(&dio->ref) which
>>> counts the BIO fragments for the dio (+1 for async multi-bio case). So
>>> completion of the last bio can still reference the old value of
>>> dio->size.
>>>
>>> Adding a bio_get/put() on dio->bio ensures that dio stays around, but
>>> does not prevent the use of the wrong dio->size. Adding an additional
>>> atomic_inc/dec(&dio->ref) would prevent that, but we would need to
>>> handle dio completion at the end of __blkdev_direct_IO() if all BIO
>>> fragments already completed at that point. That is a lot more plumbing
>>> needed, relying completely on dio->ref for all cases, thus removing
>>> the dio->multi_bio management.
>>>
>>> Something like this:
>>
>> Don't like this, as it adds unnecessary atomics for the sync case.
>> What's wrong with just adjusting dio->size if we get BLK_QC_T_EAGAIN?
>> It's safe to do so, since we're doing the final put later. We just can't
>> do it for the normal case of submit_bio() succeeding. Kill the new 'ret'
>> usage and return to what we had as well, it's more readable too imho.
>>
>> Totally untested...
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
>> index a6f7c892cb4a..131e2e0582a6 100644
>> --- a/fs/block_dev.c
>> +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
>> @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages)
>> loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
>> blk_qc_t qc = BLK_QC_T_NONE;
>> gfp_t gfp;
>> - ssize_t ret;
>> + int ret;
>>
>> if ((pos | iov_iter_alignment(iter)) &
>> (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1))
>> @@ -386,8 +386,6 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages)
>>
>> ret = 0;
>> for (;;) {
>> - int err;
>> -
>> bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);
>> bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = pos >> 9;
>> bio->bi_write_hint = iocb->ki_hint;
>> @@ -395,10 +393,8 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages)
>> bio->bi_end_io = blkdev_bio_end_io;
>> bio->bi_ioprio = iocb->ki_ioprio;
>>
>> - err = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(bio, iter);
>> - if (unlikely(err)) {
>> - if (!ret)
>> - ret = err;
>> + ret = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(bio, iter);
>> + if (unlikely(ret)) {
>> bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
>> bio_endio(bio);
>> break;
>> @@ -421,7 +417,6 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages)
>> if (nowait)
>> bio->bi_opf |= (REQ_NOWAIT | REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE);
>>
>> - dio->size += bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
>> pos += bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
>>
>> nr_pages = iov_iter_npages(iter, BIO_MAX_PAGES);
>> @@ -433,13 +428,13 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages)
>> polled = true;
>> }
>>
>> + dio->size += bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
>> qc = submit_bio(bio);
>> if (qc == BLK_QC_T_EAGAIN) {
>> - if (!ret)
>> - ret = -EAGAIN;
>> + dio->size -= bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
>
> ref after free of bio here. Easy to fix though. Also, with this, the
> bio_endio() call within submit_bio() for the EAGAIN failure will see a
> dio->size too large, including this failed bio. So this does not work.

There's no ref after free here - if BLK_QC_T_EAGAIN is being returned,
the bio has not been freed. There's no calling bio_endio() for that
case.

For dio->size, it doesn't matter. If we get the error here, bio_endio()
was never called. And if the submission is successful, we use dio->size
for the success case.

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Jens Axboe