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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: Fix two sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in pblk_line_submit_smeta_io()
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On 2018/9/5 1:52, Javier Gonzalez wrote:
>> On 4 Sep 2018, at 03.11, Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/01/2018 01:53 PM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
>>> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:
>>> [FUNC] nvm_dev_dma_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 754:
>>> nvm_dev_dma_alloc in pblk_line_submit_smeta_io
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1048:
>>> pblk_line_submit_smeta_io in pblk_line_init_bb
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1434:
>>> pblk_line_init_bb in pblk_line_replace_data
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 980:
>>> pblk_line_replace_data in pblk_recov_l2p
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 976:
>>> spin_lock in pblk_recov_l2p
>>> [FUNC] bio_map_kern(GFP_KERNEL)
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 762:
>>> bio_map_kern in pblk_line_submit_smeta_io
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1048:
>>> pblk_line_submit_smeta_io in pblk_line_init_bb
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1434:
>>> pblk_line_init_bb in pblk_line_replace_data
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 980:
>>> pblk_line_replace_data in pblk_recov_l2p
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 976:
>>> spin_lock in pblk_recov_l2p
>>> To fix these bugs, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
>>> These bugs are found by my static analysis tool DSAC.
>>> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c | 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
>>> index ed9cc977c8b3..5d915c93b6cf 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
>>> @@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ static int pblk_line_submit_smeta_io(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line,
>>> memset(&rqd, 0, sizeof(struct nvm_rq));
>>> - rqd.meta_list = nvm_dev_dma_alloc(dev->parent, GFP_KERNEL,
>>> + rqd.meta_list = nvm_dev_dma_alloc(dev->parent, GFP_ATOMIC,
>>> &rqd.dma_meta_list);
>>> if (!rqd.meta_list)
>>> return -ENOMEM;
>>> @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static int pblk_line_submit_smeta_io(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line,
>>> rqd.ppa_list = rqd.meta_list + pblk_dma_meta_size;
>>> rqd.dma_ppa_list = rqd.dma_meta_list + pblk_dma_meta_size;
>>> - bio = bio_map_kern(dev->q, line->smeta, lm->smeta_len, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> + bio = bio_map_kern(dev->q, line->smeta, lm->smeta_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>> if (IS_ERR(bio)) {
>>> ret = PTR_ERR(bio);
>>> goto free_ppa_list;
>> Javier,
>>
>> What do you think? I'm OK with applying this, but one could also move
>> the allocs outside the spinlocks?
>>
> Definitely better to take the allocation out of the spin_lock(), as all
> line preparations are made to be lock free.
>
> It is fairly simple to fix this, as it only occurs when calling
> pblk_line_replace_data() from pblk_recov_l2p(). Here the lock can be
> inside the if statement to only cover text_and_clear_bit() and to the
> else statement to cover it entirely.
>
> Jia-Ju Bai: Do you want to send a patch for this?

Okay, Javier.
I sent a patch just now, please have a look.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai

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