Re: [PATCH] block: copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast

[Jeff Mahoney]

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On 10/9/14, 9:53 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG
>> merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg
>> merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq
>> device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the
>> scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.
>> 
>> __bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt,
>> so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0.
>> Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure
>> that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing
>> more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally
>> map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of
>> virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a
>> crash.
>> 
>> If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests
>> properly report the number of segments and everything works as
>> expected.
>> 
>> Originally reported at
>> http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259
> 
> Hi, Jeff,
> 
> Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854
> (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied?  Or perhaps with
> commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I
was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of
those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never
gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to
req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might
not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the
iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,
it's still correct to copy bi_vcnt from the source bio since it's
describing the same bvec. Doing the iteration with no merging would
just end up with the same value. bio_clone_bioset builds up bi_vcnt as
it iterates over the number of segments, so that works fine. It's only
__bio_clone_fast that's broken.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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