From 07a756a49f4b4290b49ea46e089cbe6f79ff8d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kelley Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 07:42:47 -0800 Subject: Drivers: hv: util: Avoid accessing a ringbuffer not initialized yet If the KVP (or VSS) daemon starts before the VMBus channel's ringbuffer is fully initialized, we can hit the panic below: hv_utils: Registering HyperV Utility Driver hv_vmbus: registering driver hv_utils ... BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 44 UID: 0 PID: 2552 Comm: hv_kvp_daemon Tainted: G E 6.11.0-rc3+ #1 RIP: 0010:hv_pkt_iter_first+0x12/0xd0 Call Trace: ... vmbus_recvpacket hv_kvp_onchannelcallback vmbus_on_event tasklet_action_common tasklet_action handle_softirqs irq_exit_rcu sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 asm_sysvec_hyperv_stimer0 ... kvp_register_done hvt_op_read vfs_read ksys_read __x64_sys_read This can happen because the KVP/VSS channel callback can be invoked even before the channel is fully opened: 1) as soon as hv_kvp_init() -> hvutil_transport_init() creates /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp, the kvp daemon can open the device file immediately and register itself to the driver by writing a message KVP_OP_REGISTER1 to the file (which is handled by kvp_on_msg() ->kvp_handle_handshake()) and reading the file for the driver's response, which is handled by hvt_op_read(), which calls hvt->on_read(), i.e. kvp_register_done(). 2) the problem with kvp_register_done() is that it can cause the channel callback to be called even before the channel is fully opened, and when the channel callback is starting to run, util_probe()-> vmbus_open() may have not initialized the ringbuffer yet, so the callback can hit the panic of NULL pointer dereference. To reproduce the panic consistently, we can add a "ssleep(10)" for KVP in __vmbus_open(), just before the first hv_ringbuffer_init(), and then we unload and reload the driver hv_utils, and run the daemon manually within the 10 seconds. Fix the panic by reordering the steps in util_probe() so the char dev entry used by the KVP or VSS daemon is not created until after vmbus_open() has completed. This reordering prevents the race condition from happening. Reported-by: Dexuan Cui Fixes: e0fa3e5e7df6 ("Drivers: hv: utils: fix a race on userspace daemons registration") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley Acked-by: Wei Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106154247.2271-3-mhklinux@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Message-ID: <20241106154247.2271-3-mhklinux@outlook.com> --- include/linux/hyperv.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/hyperv.h') diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h index 22c22fb91042..02a226bcf0ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/hyperv.h +++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h @@ -1559,6 +1559,7 @@ struct hv_util_service { void *channel; void (*util_cb)(void *); int (*util_init)(struct hv_util_service *); + int (*util_init_transport)(void); void (*util_deinit)(void); int (*util_pre_suspend)(void); int (*util_pre_resume)(void); -- cgit v1.2.3