Re: mainline boot is broken: KASAN: use-after-free in blk_flush_complete_seq

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 06:33:06AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/9/18 3:34 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > Boot of mainline kernel is currently broken.
> > On commit 7d3bf613e99abbd96ac7b90ee3694a246c975021.
> > Config:
> > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/9f7f1fd9e477efd85b221b3a21036c20/raw/7c56ede0840494b26045976960866f2b265c6f64/gistfile1.txt
> > Should have been introduced very recently.
> 
> Can you try the below?

Helps on my setup.
 
> > You may need to also patch "umh: fix race condition", because that's
> > another boot crasher currently present in tree.
>
> Not sure that that refers to.

I for one didn't trip into that.

> diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
> index 058abdb50f31..ce41f666de3e 100644
> --- a/block/blk-flush.c
> +++ b/block/blk-flush.c
> @@ -169,9 +169,11 @@ static bool blk_flush_complete_seq(struct request *rq,
>  	struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
>  	struct list_head *pending = &fq->flush_queue[fq->flush_pending_idx];
>  	bool queued = false, kicked;
> +	unsigned int cmd_flags;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(rq->flush.seq & seq);
>  	rq->flush.seq |= seq;
> +	cmd_flags = rq->cmd_flags;
>  
>  	if (likely(!error))
>  		seq = blk_flush_cur_seq(rq);
> @@ -212,7 +214,7 @@ static bool blk_flush_complete_seq(struct request *rq,
>  		BUG();
>  	}
>  
> -	kicked = blk_kick_flush(q, fq, rq->cmd_flags);
> +	kicked = blk_kick_flush(q, fq, cmd_flags);
>  	return kicked | queued;
>  }
>  

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