Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix the race between refill work and close

Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-06-29T07:29:07Z

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 05:03:24PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We try using cancel_delayed_work_sync() to prevent the work from
> enabling NAPI. This is insufficient since we don't disable the the
> source the scheduling

can't parse this sentence

> of the refill work. This means an NAPI

what do you mean "an NAPI"? a NAPI poll callback?

> after
> cancel_delayed_work_sync() can schedule the refill work then can
> re-enable the NAPI that leads to use-after-free [1].
>
> Since the work can enable NAPI, we can't simply disable NAPI before
> calling cancel_delayed_work_sync(). So fix this by introducing a
> dedicated boolean to control whether or not the work could be
> scheduled from NAPI.
>
> [1]
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refill_work+0x43/0xd4
> Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810562c92e by task kworker/2:1/42
>
> CPU: 2 PID: 42 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc1+ #480
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> Workqueue: events refill_work
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
> print_report.cold+0xbb/0x6ac
> ? _printk+0xad/0xde
> ? refill_work+0x43/0xd4
> kasan_report+0xa8/0x130
> ? refill_work+0x43/0xd4
> refill_work+0x43/0xd4
> process_one_work+0x43d/0x780
> worker_thread+0x2a0/0x6f0
> ? process_one_work+0x780/0x780
> kthread+0x167/0x1a0
> ? kthread_exit+0x50/0x50
> ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> </TASK>
> ...
>
> Fixes: b2baed69e605c ("virtio_net: set/cancel work on ndo_open/ndo_stop")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index db05b5e930be..21bf1e5c81ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -251,6 +251,12 @@ struct virtnet_info {
> /* Does the affinity hint is set for virtqueues? */
> bool affinity_hint_set;
>
> + /* Is refill work enabled? */
> + bool refill_work_enabled;
> +
> + /* The lock to synchronize the access to refill_work_enabled */
> + spinlock_t refill_lock;
> +
> /* CPU hotplug instances for online & dead */
> struct hlist_node node;
> struct hlist_node node_dead;
> @@ -348,6 +354,20 @@ static struct page *get_a_page(struct receive_queue *rq, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> return p;
> }
>
> +static void enable_refill_work(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> +{
> + spin_lock(&vi->refill_lock);
> + vi->refill_work_enabled = true;
> + spin_unlock(&vi->refill_lock);
> +}
> +
> +static void disable_refill_work(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> +{
> + spin_lock(&vi->refill_lock);
> + vi->refill_work_enabled = false;
> + spin_unlock(&vi->refill_lock);
> +}
> +
> static void virtqueue_napi_schedule(struct napi_struct *napi,
> struct virtqueue *vq)
> {
> @@ -1527,8 +1547,12 @@ static int virtnet_receive(struct receive_queue *rq, int budget,
> }
>
> if (rq->vq->num_free > min((unsigned int)budget, virtqueue_get_vring_size(rq->vq)) / 2) {
> - if (!try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_ATOMIC))
> - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> + if (!try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
> + spin_lock(&vi->refill_lock);
> + if (vi->refill_work_enabled)
> + schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> + spin_unlock(&vi->refill_lock);
> + }
> }
>
> u64_stats_update_begin(&rq->stats.syncp);
> @@ -1651,6 +1675,8 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
> struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> int i, err;
>
> + enable_refill_work(vi);
> +
> for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
> if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs)
> /* Make sure we have some buffers: if oom use wq. */
> @@ -2033,6 +2059,8 @@ static int virtnet_close(struct net_device *dev)
> struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> int i;
>
> + /* Make sure NAPI doesn't schedule refill work */
> + disable_refill_work(vi);
> /* Make sure refill_work doesn't re-enable napi! */
> cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
>
> @@ -2776,6 +2804,9 @@ static void virtnet_freeze_down(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> netif_tx_lock_bh(vi->dev);
> netif_device_detach(vi->dev);
> netif_tx_unlock_bh(vi->dev);
> + /* Make sure NAPI doesn't schedule refill work */
> + disable_refill_work(vi);
> + /* Make sure refill_work doesn't re-enable napi! */
> cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
>
> if (netif_running(vi->dev)) {
> @@ -2799,6 +2830,8 @@ static int virtnet_restore_up(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>
> virtio_device_ready(vdev);
>
> + enable_refill_work(vi);
> +
> if (netif_running(vi->dev)) {
> for (i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; i++)
> if (!try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
> @@ -3548,6 +3581,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> vdev->priv = vi;
>
> INIT_WORK(&vi->config_work, virtnet_config_changed_work);
> + spin_lock_init(&vi->refill_lock);
>
> /* If we can receive ANY GSO packets, we must allocate large ones. */
> if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4) ||

Can't say I love all the extra state but oh well.

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> 2.25.1