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Benjamin Block 50b4d48552 bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer
Since we split the scsi_request out of struct request bsg fails to
provide a reply-buffer for the drivers. This was done via the pointer
for sense-data, that is not preallocated anymore.

Failing to allocate/assign it results in illegal dereferences because
LLDs use this pointer unquestioned.

An example panic on s390x, using the zFCP driver, looks like this (I had
debugging on, otherwise NULL-pointer dereferences wouldn't even panic on
s390x):

Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6000 TEID: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6403
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:0000000001590007 R3:0000000000000024
Oops: 0038 ilc:2 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: <Long List>
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 4.12.0-bsg-regression+ #3
Hardware name: IBM 2964 N96 702 (z/VM 6.4.0)
task: 0000000065cb0100 task.stack: 0000000065cb4000
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000003ff801e4156 (zfcp_fc_ct_els_job_handler+0x16/0x58 [zfcp])
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 000000005fa9d0d0 000000005fa9d078 0000000000e16866
           000003ff00000290 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b 0000000059f78f00 000000000000000f
           00000000593a0958 00000000593a0958 0000000060d88800 000000005ddd4c38
           0000000058b50100 07000000659cba08 000003ff801e8556 00000000659cb9a8
Krnl Code: 000003ff801e4146: e31020500004        lg      %r1,80(%r2)
           000003ff801e414c: 58402040           l       %r4,64(%r2)
          #000003ff801e4150: e35020200004       lg      %r5,32(%r2)
          >000003ff801e4156: 50405004           st      %r4,4(%r5)
           000003ff801e415a: e54c50080000       mvhi    8(%r5),0
           000003ff801e4160: e33010280012       lt      %r3,40(%r1)
           000003ff801e4166: a718fffb           lhi     %r1,-5
           000003ff801e416a: 1803               lr      %r0,%r3
Call Trace:
([<000003ff801e8556>] zfcp_fsf_req_complete+0x726/0x768 [zfcp])
 [<000003ff801ea82a>] zfcp_fsf_reqid_check+0x102/0x180 [zfcp]
 [<000003ff801eb980>] zfcp_qdio_int_resp+0x230/0x278 [zfcp]
 [<00000000009b91b6>] qdio_kick_handler+0x2ae/0x2c8
 [<00000000009b9e3e>] __tiqdio_inbound_processing+0x406/0xc10
 [<00000000001684c2>] tasklet_action+0x15a/0x1d8
 [<0000000000bd28ec>] __do_softirq+0x3ec/0x848
 [<00000000001675a4>] irq_exit+0x74/0xf8
 [<000000000010dd6a>] do_IRQ+0xba/0xf0
 [<0000000000bd19e8>] io_int_handler+0x104/0x2d4
 [<00000000001033b6>] enabled_wait+0xb6/0x188
([<000000000010339e>] enabled_wait+0x9e/0x188)
 [<000000000010396a>] arch_cpu_idle+0x32/0x50
 [<0000000000bd0112>] default_idle_call+0x52/0x68
 [<00000000001cd0fa>] do_idle+0x102/0x188
 [<00000000001cd41e>] cpu_startup_entry+0x3e/0x48
 [<0000000000118c64>] smp_start_secondary+0x11c/0x130
 [<0000000000bd2016>] restart_int_handler+0x62/0x78
 [<0000000000000000>]           (null)
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<000003ff801e41d6>] zfcp_fc_ct_job_handler+0x3e/0x48 [zfcp]

Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

This patch moves bsg-lib to allocate and setup struct bsg_job ahead of
time, including the allocation of a buffer for the reply-data.

This means, struct bsg_job is not allocated separately anymore, but as part
of struct request allocation - similar to struct scsi_cmd. Reflect this in
the function names that used to handle creation/destruction of struct
bsg_job.

Reported-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 82ed4db499 ("block: split scsi_request out of struct request")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.11+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-24 08:22:10 -06:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2017-08-21 14:07:48 -07:00
block bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer 2017-08-24 08:22:10 -06:00
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include bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer 2017-08-24 08:22:10 -06:00
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