[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: don't put and assign null to bh allocated outside

piaojun piaojun at huawei.com
Tue Apr 10 17:39:38 PDT 2018


Hi Changwei,

On 2018/4/10 19:35, Changwei Ge wrote:
> ocfs2_read_blocks() and ocfs2_read_blocks_sync() are both used to read
> several blocks from disk. Currently, the input argument *bhs* can be
> NULL or NOT. It depends on the caller's behavior. If the function fails
> in reading blocks from disk, the corresponding bh will be assigned to
> NULL and put.
> 
> Obviously, above process for non-NULL input bh is not appropriate.
> Because the caller doesn't even know its bhs are put and re-assigned.
> 
> If buffer head is managed by caller, ocfs2_read_blocks and
> ocfs2_read_blocks_sync()  should not evaluate it to NULL. It will
> cause caller accessing illegal memory, thus crash.
> 
> Also, we should put bhs which have succeeded in reading before current
> read failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei at h3c.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c b/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> index d9ebe11..7ae4147 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> @@ -99,25 +99,34 @@ int ocfs2_write_block(struct ocfs2_super *osb, struct buffer_head *bh,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +/* Caller must provide a bhs[] with all NULL or non-NULL entries, so it
> + * will be easier to handle read failure.
> + */
>  int ocfs2_read_blocks_sync(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 block,
>  			   unsigned int nr, struct buffer_head *bhs[])
>  {
>  	int status = 0;
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	struct buffer_head *bh;
> +	int new_bh = 0;
>  
>  	trace_ocfs2_read_blocks_sync((unsigned long long)block, nr);
>  
>  	if (!nr)
>  		goto bail;
>  
> +	/* Don't put buffer head and re-assign it to NULL if it is allocated
> +	 * outside since the call can't be aware of this alternation!
> +	 */
> +	new_bh = (bhs[0] == NULL);

'new_bh' just means the first bh is NULL, what if the middle bh is NULL?

> +
>  	for (i = 0 ; i < nr ; i++) {
>  		if (bhs[i] == NULL) {
>  			bhs[i] = sb_getblk(osb->sb, block++);
>  			if (bhs[i] == NULL) {
>  				status = -ENOMEM;
>  				mlog_errno(status);
> -				goto bail;
> +				break;
>  			}
>  		}
>  		bh = bhs[i];
> @@ -158,9 +167,26 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks_sync(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 block,
>  		submit_bh(REQ_OP_READ, 0, bh);
>  	}
>  
> +read_failure:

This looks weird that 'read_failure' include the normal branch.

>  	for (i = nr; i > 0; i--) {
>  		bh = bhs[i - 1];
>  
> +		if (unlikely(status)) {
> +			if (new_bh && !bh) {
> +				/* If middle bh fails, let previous bh
> +				 * finish its read and then put it to
> +				 * aovoid bh leak
> +				 */
> +				if (!buffer_jbd(bh))
> +					wait_on_buffer(bh);
> +				put_bh(bh);
> +				bhs[i - 1] = NULL;
> +			} else if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
> +				clear_buffer_uptodate(bh);
> +			}
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
>  		/* No need to wait on the buffer if it's managed by JBD. */
>  		if (!buffer_jbd(bh))
>  			wait_on_buffer(bh);
> @@ -170,8 +196,7 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks_sync(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 block,
>  			 * so we can safely record this and loop back
>  			 * to cleanup the other buffers. */
>  			status = -EIO;
> -			put_bh(bh);
> -			bhs[i - 1] = NULL;
> +			goto read_failure;
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> @@ -179,6 +204,9 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks_sync(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 block,
>  	return status;
>  }
>  
> +/* Caller must provide a bhs[] with all NULL or non-NULL entries, so it
> + * will be easier to handle read failure.
> + */
>  int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  		      struct buffer_head *bhs[], int flags,
>  		      int (*validate)(struct super_block *sb,
> @@ -188,6 +216,7 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  	int i, ignore_cache = 0;
>  	struct buffer_head *bh;
>  	struct super_block *sb = ocfs2_metadata_cache_get_super(ci);
> +	int new_bh = 0;
>  
>  	trace_ocfs2_read_blocks_begin(ci, (unsigned long long)block, nr, flags);
>  
> @@ -213,6 +242,11 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  		goto bail;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Don't put buffer head and re-assign it to NULL if it is allocated
> +	 * outside since the call can't be aware of this alternation!
> +	 */
> +	new_bh = (bhs[0] == NULL);
> +
>  	ocfs2_metadata_cache_io_lock(ci);
>  	for (i = 0 ; i < nr ; i++) {
>  		if (bhs[i] == NULL) {
> @@ -221,7 +255,8 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  				ocfs2_metadata_cache_io_unlock(ci);
>  				status = -ENOMEM;
>  				mlog_errno(status);
> -				goto bail;
> +				/* Don't forget to put previous bh! */
> +				break;
>  			}
>  		}
>  		bh = bhs[i];
> @@ -316,16 +351,27 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	status = 0;
> -
> +read_failure:
>  	for (i = (nr - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
>  		bh = bhs[i];
>  
>  		if (!(flags & OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD)) {
> -			if (status) {
> -				/* Clear the rest of the buffers on error */
> -				put_bh(bh);
> -				bhs[i] = NULL;
> +			if (unlikely(status)) {
> +				/* Clear the buffers on error including those
> +				 * ever succeeded in reading
> +				 */
> +				if (new_bh && !bh) {
> +					/* If middle bh fails, let previous bh
> +					 * finish its read and then put it to
> +					 * aovoid bh leak
> +					 */
> +					if (!buffer_jbd(bh))
> +						wait_on_buffer(bh);
> +					put_bh(bh);
> +					bhs[i] = NULL;
> +				} else if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
> +					clear_buffer_uptodate(bh);
> +				}
>  				continue;
>  			}
>  			/* We know this can't have changed as we hold the
> @@ -342,9 +388,7 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  				 * for this bh as it's not marked locally
>  				 * uptodate. */
>  				status = -EIO;
> -				put_bh(bh);
> -				bhs[i] = NULL;
> -				continue;
> +				goto read_failure;
>  			}
>  
>  			if (buffer_needs_validate(bh)) {
> @@ -354,11 +398,8 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
>  				BUG_ON(buffer_jbd(bh));
>  				clear_buffer_needs_validate(bh);
>  				status = validate(sb, bh);
> -				if (status) {
> -					put_bh(bh);
> -					bhs[i] = NULL;
> -					continue;
> -				}
> +				if (status)
> +					goto read_failure;
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> 



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