[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] aio: Fix use-after-free in cancellation path

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

The current flow of canceling a thread from THREAD_ACTIVE state is:

  1) Caller wants to cancel a request, so it calls thread_pool_cancel.

  2) thread_pool_cancel waits on the conditional variable
     elem->check_cancel.

  3) The worker thread changes state to THREAD_DONE once the task is
     done, and notifies elem->check_cancel to allow thread_pool_cancel
     to continue execution, and signals the notifier (pool->notifier) to
     allow callback function to be called later. But because of the
     global mutex, the notifier won't get processed until step 4) and 5)
     are done.

  4) thread_pool_cancel continues, leaving the notifier signaled, it
     just returns to caller.

  5) Caller thinks the request is already canceled successfully, so it
     releases any related data, such as freeing elem->common.opaque.

  6) In the next main loop iteration, the notifier handler,
     event_notifier_ready, is called. It finds the canceled thread in
     THREAD_DONE state, so calls elem->common.cb, with an (likely)
     dangling opaque pointer. This is a use-after-free.

Fix it by calling event_notifier_ready before leaving
thread_pool_cancel.

Test case update: This change will let cancel complete earlier than
test-thread-pool.c expects, so update the code to check this case: if
it's already done, done_cb sets .aiocb to NULL, skip calling
bdrv_aio_cancel on them.

Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
---
 tests/test-thread-pool.c | 2 +-
 thread-pool.c            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/test-thread-pool.c b/tests/test-thread-pool.c
index c1f8e13..aa156bc 100644
--- a/tests/test-thread-pool.c
+++ b/tests/test-thread-pool.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static void test_cancel(void)
 
     /* Canceling the others will be a blocking operation.  */
     for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
-        if (data[i].n != 3) {
+        if (data[i].aiocb && data[i].n != 3) {
             bdrv_aio_cancel(data[i].aiocb);
         }
     }
diff --git a/thread-pool.c b/thread-pool.c
index fbdd3ff..d4984ba 100644
--- a/thread-pool.c
+++ b/thread-pool.c
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ static void thread_pool_cancel(BlockDriverAIOCB *acb)
         }
         pool->pending_cancellations--;
     }
+    event_notifier_ready(&pool->notifier);
     qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool->lock);
 }
 
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