Re: [PATCHv2] ceph: Fix error handling in ceph_read_iter

From: Ilya Dryomov
Date: Mon Oct 10 2016 - 09:50:49 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/10/2016 04:11 PM, Yan, Zheng wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 Oct 2016, at 20:56, Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> In case __ceph_do_getattr returns an error and the retry_op in
>>> ceph_read_iter is not READ_INLINE, then it's possible to invoke
>>> __free_page on a page which is NULL, this naturally leads to a crash.
>>> This can happen when, for example, a process waiting on a MDS reply
>>> receives sigterm.
>>>
>>> Fix this by explicitly checking whether the page is set or not.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-users/msg31592.html
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Inverted the condition, so resending with correct condition
>>> this time.
>>>
>>> fs/ceph/file.c | 3 ++-
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
>>> index 3c68e6aee2f0..7413313ae6c8 100644
>>> --- a/fs/ceph/file.c
>>> +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
>>> @@ -929,7 +929,8 @@ again:
>>> statret = __ceph_do_getattr(inode, page,
>>> CEPH_STAT_CAP_INLINE_DATA, !!page);
>>> if (statret < 0) {
>>> - __free_page(page);
>>> + if (page)
>>> + __free_page(page);
>>> if (statret == -ENODATA) {
>>> BUG_ON(retry_op != READ_INLINE);
>>> goto again;
>>> â
>> Reviewed-by: Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I believe this needs to also be tagged as stable. To whomever is going
> to merge it: can you please do that?

I'll do that. Zheng, do you see any other issues with the killable
wait here?

Thanks,

Ilya