This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: core: Avoid that ATA error handling can trigger a kernel hang or oops
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: scsi-core-avoid-that-ata-error-handling-can-trigger-a-kernel-hang-or-oops.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 3be8828fc507cdafe7040a3dcf361a2bcd8e305b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:30:20 -0800 Subject: scsi: core: Avoid that ATA error handling can trigger a kernel hang or oops
From: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com
commit 3be8828fc507cdafe7040a3dcf361a2bcd8e305b upstream.
Avoid that the recently introduced call_rcu() call in the SCSI core triggers a double call_rcu() call.
Reported-by: Natanael Copa ncopa@alpinelinux.org Reported-by: Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198861 Fixes: 3bd6f43f5cb3 ("scsi: core: Ensure that the SCSI error handler gets woken up") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com Tested-by: Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com Cc: Natanael Copa ncopa@alpinelinux.org Cc: Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com Cc: Alexandre Oliva oliva@gnu.org Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com Cc: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Cc: Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 3 --- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 5 +++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 ++ include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h | 3 +++ include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 2 -- 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c @@ -328,8 +328,6 @@ static void scsi_host_dev_release(struct if (shost->work_q) destroy_workqueue(shost->work_q);
- destroy_rcu_head(&shost->rcu); - if (shost->shost_state == SHOST_CREATED) { /* * Free the shost_dev device name here if scsi_host_alloc() @@ -404,7 +402,6 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_alloc(struct INIT_LIST_HEAD(&shost->starved_list); init_waitqueue_head(&shost->host_wait); mutex_init(&shost->scan_mutex); - init_rcu_head(&shost->rcu);
index = ida_simple_get(&host_index_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); if (index < 0) --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c @@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ static void scsi_eh_reset(struct scsi_cm
static void scsi_eh_inc_host_failed(struct rcu_head *head) { - struct Scsi_Host *shost = container_of(head, typeof(*shost), rcu); + struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = container_of(head, typeof(*scmd), rcu); + struct Scsi_Host *shost = scmd->device->host; unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); @@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ void scsi_eh_scmd_add(struct scsi_cmnd * * Ensure that all tasks observe the host state change before the * host_failed change. */ - call_rcu(&shost->rcu, scsi_eh_inc_host_failed); + call_rcu(&scmd->rcu, scsi_eh_inc_host_failed); }
/** --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ static bool scsi_end_request(struct requ if (!blk_rq_is_scsi(req)) { WARN_ON_ONCE(!(cmd->flags & SCMD_INITIALIZED)); cmd->flags &= ~SCMD_INITIALIZED; + destroy_rcu_head(&cmd->rcu); }
if (req->mq_ctx) { @@ -1150,6 +1151,7 @@ void scsi_initialize_rq(struct request * struct scsi_cmnd *cmd = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
scsi_req_init(&cmd->req); + init_rcu_head(&cmd->rcu); cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies; cmd->retries = 0; } --- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ struct scsi_cmnd { struct list_head list; /* scsi_cmnd participates in queue lists */ struct list_head eh_entry; /* entry for the host eh_cmd_q */ struct delayed_work abort_work; + + struct rcu_head rcu; + int eh_eflags; /* Used by error handlr */
/* --- a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h @@ -571,8 +571,6 @@ struct Scsi_Host { struct blk_mq_tag_set tag_set; };
- struct rcu_head rcu; - atomic_t host_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ atomic_t host_blocked;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@wdc.com are
queue-4.15/scsi-core-avoid-that-ata-error-handling-can-trigger-a-kernel-hang-or-oops.patch