Re: [PATCH 2/5] blktrace: fix debugfs use after free

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:09:21PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 01:47:50PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 05:25:24AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:10:36AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > In theory, multiple partitions can be traced concurrently, but looks
> > > > it never works, so it won't cause trouble for multiple partition trace.
> > > > 
> > > > One userspace visible change is that blktrace debugfs dir name is switched 
> > > > to disk name from partition name in case of partition trace, will it
> > > > break some utilities?
> > > 
> > > How is this possible, its not clear to me, we go from:
> > > 
> > > -	q->debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(kobject_name(q->kobj.parent),
> > > -					    blk_debugfs_root);
> > > 
> > > To this:
> > > 
> > > +	q->debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(kobject_name(q->kobj.parent),
> > > +					    blk_debugfs_root);
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Maybe I am overlooking something.
> > 
> > Your patch removes the blktrace debugfs dir:
> > 
> > do_blk_trace_setup()
> > 
> > -       dir = debugfs_lookup(buts->name, blk_debugfs_root);
> > -       if (!dir)
> > -               bt->dir = dir = debugfs_create_dir(buts->name, blk_debugfs_root);
> > -
> > 
> > Then create blktrace attributes under the dir of q->debugfs_dir.
> > 
> > However, buts->name could be one partition device name, but
> > q->debugfs_dir has to be disk name.
> > 
> > This change is visible to blktrace utilities.
> 
> Just test the 1st two patches via "blktrace /dev/sda2", follows the
> result, so this way can't be accepted.
> 
> [root@ktest-01 ~]# blktrace /dev/sda2
> Thread 0 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace0: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 4 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace4: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 1 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace1: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 2 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace2: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 5 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace5: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 3 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace3: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 6 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace6: 2/No such file or directory
> Thread 7 failed open /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda2/trace7: 2/No such file or directory
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 0: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 1: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 2: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 3: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 4: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 5: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 6: 1/Operation not permitted
> FAILED to start thread on CPU 7: 1/Operation not permitted

Thanks, as I noted, I think we'd need to pre-create the directories per
parition. Let me know if you think of a better alternative.

  Luis