The DM crypt target used per-cpu structures to hold pointers to a
ablkcipher_request structure. The code assumed that the work item keeps
executing on a single CPU, so it didn't use synchronization when
accessing this structure.
If a CPU is disabled by writing 0 to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online,
the work item could be moved to another CPU. This causes dm-crypt
crashes, like the following, because the code starts using an incorrect
ablkcipher_request:
smpboot: CPU 7 is now offline
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000130
IP: [<ffffffffa1862b3d>] crypt_convert+0x12d/0x3c0 [dm_crypt]
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa1864415>] ? kcryptd_crypt+0x305/0x470 [dm_crypt]
[<ffffffff81062060>] ? finish_task_switch+0x40/0xc0
[<ffffffff81052a28>] ? process_one_work+0x168/0x470
[<ffffffff8105366b>] ? worker_thread+0x10b/0x390
[<ffffffff81053560>] ? manage_workers.isra.26+0x290/0x290
[<ffffffff81058d9f>] ? kthread+0xaf/0xc0
[<ffffffff81058cf0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff813464ac>] ? ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81058cf0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x120/0x120
Fix this bug by removing the per-cpu definition. The structure
ablkcipher_request is accessed via a pointer from convert_context.
Consequently, if the work item is rescheduled to a different CPU, the
thread still uses the same ablkcipher_request.
This change may undermine performance improvements intended by commit
c0297721 ("dm crypt: scale to multiple cpus") on select hardware. In
practice no performance difference was observed on recent hardware. But
regardless, correctness is more important than performance.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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