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delayacct: fix crash in delayacct_blkio_end() after delayacct init failure

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While forking, if delayacct init fails due to memory shortage, it
continues expecting all delayacct users to check task->delays pointer
against NULL before dereferencing it, which all of them used to do.

Commit c96f5471ce ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct
task"), while updating delayacct_blkio_end() to take the target task
instead of always using %current, made the function test NULL on
%current->delays and then continue to operated on @p->delays.  If
%current succeeded init while @p didn't, it leads to the following
crash.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: __delayacct_blkio_end+0xc/0x40
 PGD 8000001fd07e1067 P4D 8000001fd07e1067 PUD 1fcffbb067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 CPU: 4 PID: 25774 Comm: QIOThread0 Not tainted 4.16.0-9_fbk1_rc2_1180_g6b593215b4d7 #9
 RIP: 0010:__delayacct_blkio_end+0xc/0x40
 Call Trace:
  try_to_wake_up+0x2c0/0x600
  autoremove_wake_function+0xe/0x30
  __wake_up_common+0x74/0x120
  wake_up_page_bit+0x9c/0xe0
  mpage_end_io+0x27/0x70
  blk_update_request+0x78/0x2c0
  scsi_end_request+0x2c/0x1e0
  scsi_io_completion+0x20b/0x5f0
  blk_mq_complete_request+0xa2/0x100
  ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x79/0x400
  ata_qc_complete_multiple+0x86/0xd0
  ahci_handle_port_interrupt+0xc9/0x5c0
  ahci_handle_port_intr+0x54/0xb0
  ahci_single_level_irq_intr+0x3b/0x60
  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x43/0x190
  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x20/0x50
  handle_irq_event+0x2a/0x50
  handle_edge_irq+0x80/0x1c0
  handle_irq+0xaf/0x120
  do_IRQ+0x41/0xc0
  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf

Fix it by updating delayacct_blkio_end() check @p->delays instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724175542.GP1934745@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com
Fixes: c96f5471ce ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct task")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <dsj@fb.com>
Debugged-by: Dave Jones <dsj@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Josh Snyder <joshs@netflix.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo 2018-07-26 16:37:08 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cd3f77d74a
commit b512719f77
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static inline void delayacct_blkio_start(void)
static inline void delayacct_blkio_end(struct task_struct *p)
{
if (current->delays)
if (p->delays)
__delayacct_blkio_end(p);
delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_BLKIO);
}