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[v3,7/8] null_blk: Handle null_add_dev() failures properly

Message ID 20200221032243.9708-8-bvanassche@acm.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series Improve changing the number of hardware queues | expand

Commit Message

Bart Van Assche Feb. 21, 2020, 3:22 a.m. UTC
If null_add_dev() fails then null_del_dev() is called with a NULL argument.
Make null_del_dev() handle this scenario correctly. This patch fixes the
following KASAN complaint:

null-ptr-deref in null_del_dev+0x28/0x280 [null_blk]
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task find/1062

Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0xa5/0xe6
 __kasan_report.cold+0x65/0x99
 kasan_report+0x16/0x20
 __asan_load8+0x58/0x90
 null_del_dev+0x28/0x280 [null_blk]
 nullb_group_drop_item+0x7e/0xa0 [null_blk]
 client_drop_item+0x53/0x80 [configfs]
 configfs_rmdir+0x395/0x4e0 [configfs]
 vfs_rmdir+0xb6/0x220
 do_rmdir+0x238/0x2c0
 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0x75/0x90
 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
 drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Chaitanya Kulkarni Feb. 24, 2020, 11:31 a.m. UTC | #1
Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

On 2/20/20 7:23 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> If null_add_dev() fails then null_del_dev() is called with a NULL argument.
> Make null_del_dev() handle this scenario correctly. This patch fixes the
> following KASAN complaint:
>
> null-ptr-deref in null_del_dev+0x28/0x280 [null_blk]
> Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task find/1062
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
index 9846648780b6..ba83fd0537ce 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
@@ -1469,7 +1469,12 @@  static const struct blk_mq_ops null_mq_ops = {
 
 static void null_del_dev(struct nullb *nullb)
 {
-	struct nullb_device *dev = nullb->dev;
+	struct nullb_device *dev;
+
+	if (!nullb)
+		return;
+
+	dev = nullb->dev;
 
 	ida_simple_remove(&nullb_indexes, nullb->index);