Memory backed or zoned null block devices may generate actual request
timeout errors due to the submission path being blocked on memory
allocation or zone locking. Unlike fake timeouts or injected timeouts,
the request submission path will call blk_mq_complete_request() or
blk_mq_end_request() for these real timeout errors, causing a double
completion and use after free situation as the block layer timeout
handler executes blk_mq_rq_timed_out() and __blk_mq_free_request() in
blk_mq_check_expired(). This problem often triggers a NULL pointer
dereference such as:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050
RIP: 0010:blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx+0x5/0x20
...
Call Trace:
dd_finish_request+0x56/0x80
blk_mq_free_request+0x37/0x130
null_handle_cmd+0xbf/0x250 [null_blk]
? null_queue_rq+0x67/0xd0 [null_blk]
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x122/0x850
__blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0xbb/0x2c0
__blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x13d/0x190
blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
__blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x49/0x90
process_one_work+0x26c/0x580
worker_thread+0x55/0x3c0
? process_one_work+0x580/0x580
kthread+0x134/0x150
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
This problem very often triggers when running the full btrfs xfstests
on a memory-backed zoned null block device in a VM with limited amount
of memory.
Avoid this by executing blk_mq_complete_request() in null_timeout_rq()
only for commands that are marked for a fake timeout completion using
the fake_timeout boolean in struct null_cmd. For timeout errors injected
through debugfs, the timeout handler will execute
blk_mq_complete_request()i as before. This is safe as the submission
path does not execute complete requests in this case.
In null_timeout_rq(), also make sure to set the command error field to
BLK_STS_TIMEOUT and to propagate this error through to the request
completion.
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331225244.126426-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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