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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] cocci: cpi: add complete api check script
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:43:59 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:28:08AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>> > So what exact race are you trying to catch here?
>>
>> on-stack copmletion with a wait_for_completion that can return early
>> (eg. killable, interruptible, or timeout) can go out of scope (eg, free
>> the completion) with the other side calling complete() on some possibly
>> re-used piece of stack.
>>
>> IOW, Use-after-Free.
>>
>> Care must be taken to ensure the other side (whatever does complete())
>> is either terminated or otherwise stopped from calling complete() on an
>> out-of-scope variable.
>
> I got that. But as you were stating as well, when care is taken, the script
> appears to still report it. The example I gave has:
>
> req = blk_mq_alloc_request(q, REQ_OP_DRV_OUT, 0);
> [..]
> req->end_io_data = &wait;
> [..]
> hba->tmf_rqs[req->tag] = req;
> [..]
> err = wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&wait,
> [..]
> spin_lock_irqsave(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
> hba->tmf_rqs[req->tag] = NULL;
> __clear_bit(task_tag, &hba->outstanding_tasks);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
>
>
> And where the complete is:
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
> pending = ufshcd_readl(hba, REG_UTP_TASK_REQ_DOOR_BELL);
> issued = hba->outstanding_tasks & ~pending;
> for_each_set_bit(tag, &issued, hba->nutmrs) {
> struct request *req = hba->tmf_rqs[tag];
> struct completion *c = req->end_io_data;
>
> complete(c);
> ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
> }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
>
> So the spinlock is making sure that the complete() only works on a
> completion if it is still there.
>
There is nothing wrong with your code.

This script will not check the hba->host->host_lock lock, and there is
another hba->outstanding_tasks bit mask to ensure that there is no UAF
here. But this script doesn't have a way to get these implicit
conditions.

> I guess I should have asked, how is this script differentiating between
> where there's a problem and where there isn't.
>
> If you remove the spinlocks, then there would most definitely be a race,
> and I'm not even sure if the supplied patch would improve this much.
>
> -- Steve


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Schspa Shi

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