433279beba
Commit 3e453522593d ("md: Free resources in __md_stop") tried to fix
null-ptr-deference for 'active_io' by moving percpu_ref_exit() to
__md_stop(), however, the commit also moving 'writes_pending' to
__md_stop(), and this will cause mdadm tests broken:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 15 PID: 17830 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 6.3.0-rc3-next-20230324-00009-g520d37
RIP: 0010:free_percpu+0x465/0x670
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__percpu_ref_exit+0x48/0x70
percpu_ref_exit+0x1a/0x90
__md_stop+0xe9/0x170
do_md_stop+0x1e1/0x7b0
md_ioctl+0x90c/0x1aa0
blkdev_ioctl+0x19b/0x400
vfs_ioctl+0x20/0x50
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x6c/0xe0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
And the problem can be reporduced 100% by following test:
mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n1 /dev/sda --force
echo inactive > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
echo read-auto > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
echo inactive > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
Root cause:
// start raid
raid1_run
mddev_init_writes_pending
percpu_ref_init
// inactive raid
array_state_store
do_md_stop
__md_stop
percpu_ref_exit
// start raid again
array_state_store
do_md_run
raid1_run
mddev_init_writes_pending
if (mddev->writes_pending.percpu_count_ptr)
// won't reinit
// inactive raid again
...
percpu_ref_exit
-> null-ptr-deference
Before the commit, 'writes_pending' is exited when mddev is freed, and
it's safe to restart raid because mddev_init_writes_pending() already make
sure that 'writes_pending' will only be initialized once.
Fix the prblem by moving 'writes_pending' back, it's a litter hard to find
the relationship between alloc memory and free memory, however, code
changes is much less and we lived with this for a long time already.
Fixes: 3e453522593d ("md: Free resources in __md_stop")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328094400.1448955-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
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