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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block: Fix qemu crash when using scsi-block


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block: Fix qemu crash when using scsi-block
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:06:40 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22)

Am 22.11.2017 um 17:34 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> On 22/11/2017 16:33, Deepa Srinivasan wrote:
> > Starting qemu with the following arguments causes qemu to segfault:
> > ... -device lsi,id=lsi0 -drive 
> > file=iscsi:<...>,format=raw,if=none,node-name=
> > iscsi1 -device scsi-block,bus=lsi0.0,id=<...>,drive=iscsi1
> > 
> > This patch fixes blk_aio_ioctl() so it does not pass stack addresses to
> > blk_aio_ioctl_entry() which may be invoked after blk_aio_ioctl() returns. 
> > More
> > details about the bug follow.
> > 
> > blk_aio_ioctl() invokes blk_aio_prwv() with blk_aio_ioctl_entry as the
> > coroutine parameter. blk_aio_prwv() ultimately calls aio_co_enter().
> > 
> > When blk_aio_ioctl() is executed from within a coroutine context (e.g.
> > iscsi_bh_cb()), aio_co_enter() adds the coroutine (blk_aio_ioctl_entry) to
> > the current coroutine's wakeup queue. blk_aio_ioctl() then returns.
> > 
> > When blk_aio_ioctl_entry() executes later, it accesses an invalid pointer:
> > ....
> >     BlkRwCo *rwco = &acb->rwco;
> > 
> >     rwco->ret = blk_co_ioctl(rwco->blk, rwco->offset,
> >                              rwco->qiov->iov[0].iov_base);  <--- qiov is
> >                                                                  invalid 
> > here
> > ...
> > 
> > In the case when blk_aio_ioctl() is called from a non-coroutine context,
> > blk_aio_ioctl_entry() executes immediately. But if bdrv_co_ioctl() calls
> > qemu_coroutine_yield(), blk_aio_ioctl() will return. When the coroutine
> > execution is complete, control returns to blk_aio_ioctl_entry() after the 
> > call
> > to blk_co_ioctl(). There is no invalid reference after this point, but the
> > function is still holding on to invalid pointers.
> > 
> > The fix is to allocate memory for the QEMUIOVector and struct iovec as part 
> > of
> > the request struct which the IO buffer is part of. The memory for this 
> > struct is
> > guaranteed to be valid till the AIO is completed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Deepa Srinivasan <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <address@hidden>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  block/block-backend.c          | 13 ++-----------
> >  hw/block/virtio-blk.c          |  9 ++++++++-
> >  hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c            | 10 +++++++++-
> >  hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c         |  9 ++++++++-
> >  include/sysemu/block-backend.h |  2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
> > index baef8e7..c275827 100644
> > --- a/block/block-backend.c
> > +++ b/block/block-backend.c
> > @@ -1472,19 +1472,10 @@ static void blk_aio_ioctl_entry(void *opaque)
> >      blk_aio_complete(acb);
> >  }
> >  
> > -BlockAIOCB *blk_aio_ioctl(BlockBackend *blk, unsigned long int req, void 
> > *buf,
> > +BlockAIOCB *blk_aio_ioctl(BlockBackend *blk, unsigned long int req, 
> > QEMUIOVector *qiov,
> >                            BlockCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque)
> 
> I think this is not the best way to fix the bug, because it adds extra
> unnecessary code in the callers.
> 
> Perhaps you can change BlkRwCo's "qiov" field to "void *buf" and the
> same for blk_aio_prwv's "qiov" argument?
> 
> Then the QEMUIOVector is not needed at all, and blk_co_ioctl can just
> use rwco->buf.

But the same struct is used for read and write requests that do use an
actual QEMUIOVector and not just a linear buffer.

Kevin



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