Re: [PATCH] net: sunrpc: svcauth_gss: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Wed Oct 25 2017 - 13:04:56 EST


On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 15:12 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Quoting "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 02:18:52PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 13:53 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 01:26:49PM -0400, Weston Andros Adamson wrote:
> > > > > Is there a reason to BUG() in these places? Couldn't we
> > >
> > > WARN_ON_ONCE and return an error?
> > > >
> > > > I think the BUG() will just kill an nfsd thread that isn't holding any
> > > > interesting locks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Not necessarily. If panic_on_oops is set (and it usually is in
> > > "production" setups), it'll crash the box there.
> >
> > Maybe they're getting what they asked for?
> >
> > > > The failures look unlikely. (Except for that read_u32... return, I
> > > > wonder if we're missing a check there.)
> > >
> > > Agreed, looks like you only hit an error if the read attempts to go out
> > > of bounds. In principle that shouldn't ever happen (and I haven't seen
> > > any reports of it).
> > >
> > > Still...I agree with Dros that it's better to handle this without
> > > oopsing if we can. We can return an error from either of those
> > > functions. A sane error and a WARN_ONCE would be better here.
> >
> > OK, OK, OK.
> >
> > There are also some more BUGs that could use looking into if anyone
> > wants to.
> >
> > --b.
> >
> > commit eb754930662f
> > Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue Oct 24 14:58:11 2017 -0400
> >
> > rpc: remove some BUG()s
> >
> > It would be kinder to WARN() and recover in several spots here instead
> > of BUG()ing.
> >
> > Also, it looks like the read_u32_from_xdr_buf() call could actually
> > fail, though it might require a broken (or malicious) client, so convert
> > that to just an error return.
> >
> > Reported-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> > b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> > index 7b1ee5a0b03c..73165e9ca5bf 100644
> > --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> > @@ -855,11 +855,13 @@ unwrap_integ_data(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
> > struct xdr_buf *buf, u32 seq, struct g
> > return stat;
> > if (integ_len > buf->len)
> > return stat;
> > - if (xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &integ_buf, 0, integ_len))
> > - BUG();
> > + if (xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &integ_buf, 0, integ_len)) {
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > + return stat;
> > + }
> > /* copy out mic... */
> > if (read_u32_from_xdr_buf(buf, integ_len, &mic.len))
> > - BUG();
> > + return stat;
> > if (mic.len > RPC_MAX_AUTH_SIZE)
> > return stat;
> > mic.data = kmalloc(mic.len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > @@ -1611,8 +1613,10 @@ svcauth_gss_wrap_resp_integ(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> > BUG_ON(integ_len % 4);
> > *p++ = htonl(integ_len);
> > *p++ = htonl(gc->gc_seq);
> > - if (xdr_buf_subsegment(resbuf, &integ_buf, integ_offset, integ_len))
> > - BUG();
> > + if (xdr_buf_subsegment(resbuf, &integ_buf, integ_offset, integ_len)) {
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > + goto out_err;
> > + }
> > if (resbuf->tail[0].iov_base == NULL) {
> > if (resbuf->head[0].iov_len + RPC_MAX_AUTH_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE)
> > goto out_err;
>
> What about the following BUG() at net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c:1058:
>
> /*
> * Remove a dead transport
> */
> static void svc_delete_xprt(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
> {
> struct svc_serv *serv = xprt->xpt_server;
> struct svc_deferred_req *dr;
>
> /* Only do this once */
> if (test_and_set_bit(XPT_DEAD, &xprt->xpt_flags))
> BUG();
>
> dprintk("svc: svc_delete_xprt(%p)\n", xprt);
> xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_detach(xprt);
>
> spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_lock);
> list_del_init(&xprt->xpt_list);
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&xprt->xpt_ready));
> if (test_bit(XPT_TEMP, &xprt->xpt_flags))
> serv->sv_tmpcnt--;
> spin_unlock_bh(&serv->sv_lock);
>
> while ((dr = svc_deferred_dequeue(xprt)) != NULL)
> kfree(dr);
>
> call_xpt_users(xprt);
> svc_xprt_put(xprt);
> }
>
> I'm suspicious about that comment above the _if_ condition: /* Only do
> this once */
>
> Would it help to replace that BUG with a WARN_ON_ONCE?
>

Maybe. How safe is it to run all of that more than once after XPT_DEAD
is set? You'd probably just end up crashing at some later point down the
line anyway...

I suppose you could do a WARN() there and then return without actually
doing anything. That might let you limp along if you did hit this.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>