Re: usercopy whitelist woe in scsi_sense_cache

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Apr 17 2018 - 17:48:31 EST


On 4/17/18 3:47 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 4/17/18 3:25 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I see elv.priv[1] assignments made in a few places -- is it possible
>>>> there is some kind of uninitialized-but-not-NULL state that can leak
>>>> in there?
>>>
>>> Got it. This fixes it for me:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
>>> index 0dc9e341c2a7..859df3160303 100644
>>> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
>>> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
>>> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_get_request(struct
>>> request_queue *q,
>>>
>>> rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tag, op);
>>> if (!op_is_flush(op)) {
>>> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
>>> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
>>> if (e && e->type->ops.mq.prepare_request) {
>>> if (e->type->icq_cache && rq_ioc(bio))
>>> blk_mq_sched_assign_ioc(rq, bio);
>>> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq)
>>> e->type->ops.mq.finish_request(rq);
>>> if (rq->elv.icq) {
>>> put_io_context(rq->elv.icq->ioc);
>>> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
>>> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
>>> }
>>> }
>>
>> This looks like a BFQ problem, this should not be necessary. Paolo,
>> you're calling your own prepare request handler from the insert
>> as well, and your prepare request does nothing if rq->elv.icq == NULL.
>
> I sent the patch anyway, since it's kind of a robustness improvement,
> I'd hope. If you fix BFQ also, please add:

It's also a memset() in the hot path, would prefer to avoid that...
The issue here is really the convoluted bfq usage of insert/prepare,
I'm sure Paolo can take it from here.

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Jens Axboe