[SCSI] cxgb3i: convert cdev->l2opt to use rcu to prevent NULL dereference
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:59:13 +0000 (13:59 -0400)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:28:01 +0000 (09:28 -0500)
commite48f129c2f200dde8899f6ea5c6e7173674fc482
tree9f5acdec1e31c12a7382e26dd173e904fc7fb2a3
parent3538a001ea7db13fa1be2966b71f69d808acff01
[SCSI] cxgb3i: convert cdev->l2opt to use rcu to prevent NULL dereference

This oops was reported recently:
d:mon> e
cpu 0xd: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000000fd4c7120]
    pc: d00000000076f194: .t3_l2t_get+0x44/0x524 [cxgb3]
    lr: d000000000b02108: .init_act_open+0x150/0x3d4 [cxgb3i]
    sp: c0000000fd4c73a0
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: 0
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc0000000fd640d40
  paca    = 0xc00000000054ff80
    pid   = 5085, comm = iscsid
d:mon> t
[c0000000fd4c7450d000000000b02108 .init_act_open+0x150/0x3d4 [cxgb3i]
[c0000000fd4c7500d000000000e45378 .cxgbi_ep_connect+0x784/0x8e8 [libcxgbi]
[c0000000fd4c7650d000000000db33f0 .iscsi_if_rx+0x71c/0xb18
[scsi_transport_iscsi2]
[c0000000fd4c7740c000000000370c9c .netlink_data_ready+0x40/0xa4
[c0000000fd4c77c0c00000000036f010 .netlink_sendskb+0x4c/0x9c
[c0000000fd4c7850c000000000370c18 .netlink_sendmsg+0x358/0x39c
[c0000000fd4c7950c00000000033be24 .sock_sendmsg+0x114/0x1b8
[c0000000fd4c7b50c00000000033d208 .sys_sendmsg+0x218/0x2ac
[c0000000fd4c7d70c00000000033f55c .sys_socketcall+0x228/0x27c
[c0000000fd4c7e30c0000000000086a4 syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
--- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00000080da560cfc

The root cause was an EEH error, which sent us down the offload_close path in
the cxgb3 driver, which in turn sets cdev->l2opt to NULL, without regard for
upper layer driver (like the cxgbi drivers) which might have execution contexts
in the middle of its use. The result is the oops above, when t3_l2t_get attempts
to dereference L2DATA(cdev)->nentries in arp_hash right after the EEH error handler sets it to NULL.

The fix is to prevent the setting of the NULL pointer until after there are no
further users of it.  The t3cdev->l2opt pointer is now converted to be an rcu
pointer and the L2DATA macro is now called under the protection of the
rcu_read_lock().  When the EEH error path:
t3_adapter_error->offload_close->cxgb3_offload_deactivate
Is exectured, setting of that l2opt pointer to NULL, is now gated on an rcu
quiescence point, preventing, allowing L2DATA callers to safely check for a NULL
pointer without concern that the underlying data will be freeded before the
pointer is dereferenced.

This has been tested by the reporter and shown to fix the reproted oops

[nhorman: fix up unitinialised variable reported by Dan Carpenter]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Karen Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c
drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c
drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c
drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.h
drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c