ACK: [SRU oem-5.6] bcache: fix potential deadlock problem in btree_gc_coalesce

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Thu Sep 17 08:21:33 UTC 2020


On 16/09/2020 21:24, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> From: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26 at huawei.com>
> 
> coccicheck reports:
>   drivers/md//bcache/btree.c:1538:1-7: preceding lock on line 1417
> 
> In btree_gc_coalesce func, if the coalescing process fails, we will goto
> to out_nocoalesce tag directly without releasing new_nodes[i]->write_lock.
> Then, it will cause a deadlock when trying to acquire new_nodes[i]->
> write_lock for freeing new_nodes[i] before return.
> 
> btree_gc_coalesce func details as follows:
> 	if alloc new_nodes[i] fails:
> 		goto out_nocoalesce;
> 	// obtain new_nodes[i]->write_lock
> 	mutex_lock(&new_nodes[i]->write_lock)
> 	// main coalescing process
> 	for (i = nodes - 1; i > 0; --i)
> 		[snipped]
> 		if coalescing process fails:
> 			// Here, directly goto out_nocoalesce
> 			 // tag will cause a deadlock
> 			goto out_nocoalesce;
> 		[snipped]
> 	// release new_nodes[i]->write_lock
> 	mutex_unlock(&new_nodes[i]->write_lock)
> 	// coalesing succ, return
> 	return;
> out_nocoalesce:
> 	btree_node_free(new_nodes[i])	// free new_nodes[i]
> 	// obtain new_nodes[i]->write_lock
> 	mutex_lock(&new_nodes[i]->write_lock);
> 	// set flag for reuse
> 	clear_bit(BTREE_NODE_dirty, &ew_nodes[i]->flags);
> 	// release new_nodes[i]->write_lock
> 	mutex_unlock(&new_nodes[i]->write_lock);
> 
> To fix the problem, we add a new tag 'out_unlock_nocoalesce' for
> releasing new_nodes[i]->write_lock before out_nocoalesce tag. If
> coalescing process fails, we will go to out_unlock_nocoalesce tag
> for releasing new_nodes[i]->write_lock before free new_nodes[i] in
> out_nocoalesce tag.
> 
> (Coly Li helps to clean up commit log format.)
> 
> Fixes: 2a285686c109816 ("bcache: btree locking rework")
> Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26 at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli at suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> (cherry picked from commit be23e837333a914df3f24bf0b32e87b0331ab8d1)
> CVE-2020-12771
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
> index fa872df4e770..cad8b0b97e33 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
> @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ static int btree_gc_coalesce(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op,
>  			if (__set_blocks(n1, n1->keys + n2->keys,
>  					 block_bytes(b->c)) >
>  			    btree_blocks(new_nodes[i]))
> -				goto out_nocoalesce;
> +				goto out_unlock_nocoalesce;
>  
>  			keys = n2->keys;
>  			/* Take the key of the node we're getting rid of */
> @@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ static int btree_gc_coalesce(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op,
>  
>  		if (__bch_keylist_realloc(&keylist,
>  					  bkey_u64s(&new_nodes[i]->key)))
> -			goto out_nocoalesce;
> +			goto out_unlock_nocoalesce;
>  
>  		bch_btree_node_write(new_nodes[i], &cl);
>  		bch_keylist_add(&keylist, &new_nodes[i]->key);
> @@ -1522,6 +1522,10 @@ static int btree_gc_coalesce(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op,
>  	/* Invalidated our iterator */
>  	return -EINTR;
>  
> +out_unlock_nocoalesce:
> +	for (i = 0; i < nodes; i++)
> +		mutex_unlock(&new_nodes[i]->write_lock);
> +
>  out_nocoalesce:
>  	closure_sync(&cl);
>  
> 


Clean cherry pick. Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>



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