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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Cc: Bean Huo <beanhuo@micron.com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	khazhy@google.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Crash in NVME tracing on 5.10LTS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:46:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024011150-twins-humorist-e01d@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240109181722.228783-1-jsperbeck@google.com>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 10:17:22AM -0800, John Sperbeck wrote:
> With 5.10LTS (e.g., 5.10.206), on a machine using an NVME device, the
> following tracing commands will trigger a crash due to a NULL pointer
> dereference:
> 
> KDIR=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> echo 1 > $KDIR/tracing_on
> echo 1 > $KDIR/events/nvme/enable
> echo "Waiting for trace events..."
> cat $KDIR/trace_pipe
> 
> The backtrace looks something like this:
> 
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ>
>  ? __die_body+0x6b/0xb0
>  ? __die+0x9e/0xb0
>  ? no_context+0x3eb/0x460
>  ? ttwu_do_activate+0xf0/0x120
>  ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x157/0x200
>  ? select_idle_sibling+0x2f/0x410
>  ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x20
>  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2ab/0x360
>  ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x180
>  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
>  ? trace_event_raw_event_nvme_complete_rq+0xba/0x170
>  ? trace_event_raw_event_nvme_complete_rq+0xa3/0x170
>  nvme_complete_rq+0x168/0x170
>  nvme_pci_complete_rq+0x16c/0x1f0
>  nvme_handle_cqe+0xde/0x190
>  nvme_irq+0x78/0x100
>  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x77/0x1e0
>  handle_irq_event+0x54/0xb0
>  handle_edge_irq+0xdf/0x230
>  asm_call_irq_on_stack+0xf/0x20
>  </IRQ>
>  common_interrupt+0x9e/0x150
>  asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
> 
> It looks to me like these two upstream commits were backported to 5.10:
> 
> 679c54f2de67 ("nvme: use command_id instead of req->tag in trace_nvme_complete_rq()")
> e7006de6c238 ("nvme: code command_id with a genctr for use-after-free validation")
> 
> But they depend on this upstream commit to initialize the 'cmd' field in
> some cases:
> 
> f4b9e6c90c57 ("nvme: use driver pdu command for passthrough")
> 
> Does it sound like I'm on the right track?  The 5.15LTS and later seems to be okay.
> 

If you apply that commit, does it solve the issue for you?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-11  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-09 18:17 Crash in NVME tracing on 5.10LTS John Sperbeck
2024-01-11  9:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-01-11 17:00   ` John Sperbeck
2024-01-11 19:38     ` Jens Axboe
2024-01-13  9:34       ` Greg KH
2024-01-13 16:11         ` Jens Axboe

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