In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/ipoib: Fix mcast list locking
Releasing the priv->lock while iterating the priv->multicast_list in
ipoib_mcast_join_task() opens a window for ipoib_mcast_dev_flush() to
remove the items while in the middle of iteration. If the mcast is removed
while the lock was dropped, the for loop spins forever resulting in a hard
lockup (as was reported on RHEL 4.18.0-372.75.1.el8_6 kernel):
Task A (kworker/u72:2 below) | Task B (kworker/u72:0 below)
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
ipoib_mcast_join_task(work) | ipoib_ib_dev_flush_light(work)
spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock) | __ipoib_ib_dev_flush(priv, ...)
list_for_each_entry(mcast, | ipoib_mcast_dev_flush(dev = priv->dev)
&priv->multicast_list, list) |
ipoib_mcast_join(dev, mcast) |
spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock) |
| spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags)
| list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast,
| &priv->multicast_list, list)
| list_del(&mcast->list);
| list_add_tail(&mcast->list, &remove_list)
| spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags)
spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock) |
| ipoib_mcast_remove_list(&remove_list)
(Here, mcast is no longer on the | list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast,
priv->multicast_list and we keep | remove_list, list)
spinning on the remove_list of | »> wait_for_completion(&mcast->done)
the other thread which is blocked |
and the list is still valid on |
its stack.)
Fix this by keeping the lock held and changing to GFP_ATOMIC to prevent eventual sleeps. Unfortunately we could not reproduce the lockup and confirm this fix but based on the code review I think this fix should address such lockups.
[exception RIP: ipoib_mcast_join_task+0x1b1]
RIP: ffffffffc0944ac1 RSP: ff646f199a8c7e00 RFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff1c6a1a04dc82f8 RCX: 0000000000000000
work (&priv->mcast_task{,.work})
RDX: ff1c6a192d60ac68 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ff1c6a1a04dc8000
&mcast->list
RBP: ff646f199a8c7e90 R8: ff1c699980019420 R9: ff1c6a1920c9a000
R10: ff646f199a8c7e00 R11: ff1c6a191a7d9800 R12: ff1c6a192d60ac00
mcast
R13: ff1c6a1d82200000 R14: ff1c6a1a04dc8000 R15: ff1c6a1a04dc82d8
dev priv (&priv->lock) &priv->multicast_list (aka head)
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
— — #5 [ff646f199a8c7e00] ipoib_mcast_join_task+0x1b1 at ffffffffc0944ac1 [ib_ipoib] #6 [ff646f199a8c7e98] process_one_work+0x1a7 at ffffffff9bf10967
crash> rx ff646f199a8c7e68 ff646f199a8c7e68: ff1c6a1a04dc82f8 «< work = &priv->mcast_task.work
crash> list -hO ipoib_dev_priv.multicast_list ff1c6a1a04dc8000 (empty)
crash> ipoib_dev_priv.mcast_task.work.func,mcast_mutex.owner.counter ff1c6a1a04dc8000 mcast_task.work.func = 0xffffffffc0944910 <ipoib_mcast_join_task>, mcast_mutex.owner.counter = 0xff1c69998efec000
#3 [ff646f1980153d50] wait_for_completion+0x96 at ffffffff9c7d7646 #4 [ff646f1980153d90] ipoib_mcast_remove_list+0x56 at ffffffffc0944dc6 [ib_ipoib] #5 [ff646f1980153de8] ipoib_mcast_dev_flush+0x1a7 at ffffffffc09455a7 [ib_ipoib] #6 [ff646f1980153e58] __ipoib_ib_dev_flush+0x1a4 at ffffffffc09431a4 [ib_ipoib] #7 [ff —truncated—