[SCSI] scsi_scan: Fix 'Poison overwritten' warning caused by using freed 'shost'
authorHuajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:59:14 +0000 (19:59 +0800)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:52:48 +0000 (08:52 -0600)
In do_scan_async(), calling scsi_autopm_put_host(shost) may reference
freed shost, and cause Posison overwitten warning.
Yes, this case can happen, for example, an USB is disconnected just
when do_scan_async() thread starts to run, then scsi_host_put() called
in scsi_finish_async_scan() will lead to shost be freed(because the
refcount of shost->shost_gendev decreases to 1 after USB disconnects),
at this point, if references shost again, system will show following
warning msg.

To make scsi_autopm_put_host(shost) always reference a valid shost,
put it just before scsi_host_put() in function
scsi_finish_async_scan().

[  299.281565] =============================================================================
[  299.281634] BUG kmalloc-4096 (Tainted: G          I ): Poison overwritten
[  299.281682] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[  299.281684]
[  299.281752] INFO: 0xffff880056c305d0-0xffff880056c305d0. First byte
0x6a instead of 0x6b
[  299.281816] INFO: Allocated in scsi_host_alloc+0x4a/0x490 age=1688
cpu=1 pid=2004
[  299.281870]  __slab_alloc+0x617/0x6c1
[  299.281901]  __kmalloc+0x28c/0x2e0
[  299.281931]  scsi_host_alloc+0x4a/0x490
[  299.281966]  usb_stor_probe1+0x5b/0xc40 [usb_storage]
[  299.282010]  storage_probe+0xa4/0xe0 [usb_storage]
[  299.282062]  usb_probe_interface+0x172/0x330 [usbcore]
[  299.282105]  driver_probe_device+0x257/0x3b0
[  299.282138]  __driver_attach+0x103/0x110
[  299.282171]  bus_for_each_dev+0x8e/0xe0
[  299.282201]  driver_attach+0x26/0x30
[  299.282230]  bus_add_driver+0x1c4/0x430
[  299.282260]  driver_register+0xb6/0x230
[  299.282298]  usb_register_driver+0xe5/0x270 [usbcore]
[  299.282337]  0xffffffffa04ab03d
[  299.282364]  do_one_initcall+0x47/0x230
[  299.282396]  sys_init_module+0xa0f/0x1fe0
[  299.282429] INFO: Freed in scsi_host_dev_release+0x18a/0x1d0 age=85
cpu=0 pid=2008
[  299.282482]  __slab_free+0x3c/0x2a1
[  299.282510]  kfree+0x296/0x310
[  299.282536]  scsi_host_dev_release+0x18a/0x1d0
[  299.282574]  device_release+0x74/0x100
[  299.282606]  kobject_release+0xc7/0x2a0
[  299.282637]  kobject_put+0x54/0xa0
[  299.282668]  put_device+0x27/0x40
[  299.282694]  scsi_host_put+0x1d/0x30
[  299.282723]  do_scan_async+0x1fc/0x2b0
[  299.282753]  kthread+0xdf/0xf0
[  299.282782]  kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[  299.282817] INFO: Slab 0xffffea00015b0c00 objects=7 used=7 fp=0x
      (null) flags=0x100000000004080
[  299.282882] INFO: Object 0xffff880056c30000 @offset=0 fp=0x          (null)
[  299.282884]
...

Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c

index 89da43f..29c4c04 100644 (file)
@@ -1815,6 +1815,7 @@ static void scsi_finish_async_scan(struct async_scan_data *data)
        }
        spin_unlock(&async_scan_lock);
 
+       scsi_autopm_put_host(shost);
        scsi_host_put(shost);
        kfree(data);
 }
@@ -1841,7 +1842,6 @@ static int do_scan_async(void *_data)
 
        do_scsi_scan_host(shost);
        scsi_finish_async_scan(data);
-       scsi_autopm_put_host(shost);
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ void scsi_scan_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
        p = kthread_run(do_scan_async, data, "scsi_scan_%d", shost->host_no);
        if (IS_ERR(p))
                do_scan_async(data);
-       /* scsi_autopm_put_host(shost) is called in do_scan_async() */
+       /* scsi_autopm_put_host(shost) is called in scsi_finish_async_scan() */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_scan_host);