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PATCH 1/1 block: copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Originally reported at http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

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 block/bio.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
block/bio.c +1 -0
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ void __bio_clone_fast(struct bio *bio, s
 	bio->bi_rw = bio_src->bi_rw;
 	bio->bi_iter = bio_src->bi_iter;
 	bio->bi_io_vec = bio_src->bi_io_vec;
+	bio->bi_vcnt = bio_src->bi_vcnt;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bio_clone_fast);
 
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Jeff Mahoney
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Quoted 13 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

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If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Originally reported at http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge:
fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm
table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Cheers,
Jeff

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Quoted 21 lines · Jeff Moyer
Quoted 19 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

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Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case, it's still correct to copy bi_vcnt from the source bio since it's describing the same bvec. Doing the iteration with no merging would just end up with the same value. bio_clone_bioset builds up bi_vcnt as it iterates over the number of segments, so that works fine. It's only __bio_clone_fast that's broken.

- -Jeff

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SUSE Labs
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Quoted 21 lines · Jeff Moyer
Quoted 19 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Quoted 8 lines
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Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Quoted 7 lines

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,

This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test if the attached patch fixes your problem?

Thanks,
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Ming Lei

From d3946db93c8eb1da4a0c32249d603f415febf09e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:17:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for
cloned bio

It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt if the bio is cloned.

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 block/blk-merge.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
block/blk-merge.c +1 -0
index f71bad3..d5cad1a 100644
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq)
 void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 {
 	if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &q->queue_flags) &&
+			!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED) &&
 			bio->bi_vcnt < queue_max_segments(q))
 		bio->bi_phys_segments = bio->bi_vcnt;
 	else {
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Quoted 43 lines · Ming Lei
Quoted 34 lines · Jeff Mahoney

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Quoted 21 lines · Jeff Moyer
Quoted 19 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 2 lines

Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Quoted 7 lines

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,

Quoted 3 lines

This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test if the attached patch fixes your problem?

Please ignore last patch and test the attached patch since we still should use no sg merge to recalculate req's segments for cloned bio.

Thanks,

From fd8be35c1b1e35781137b2020dd29552c3f8eb98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:17:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for
cloned bio

It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt if the bio is cloned.

---
 block/blk-merge.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
block/blk-merge.c +6 -2
index f71bad3..ba99351 100644
@@ -97,14 +97,18 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq)
 
 void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 {
-	if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &q->queue_flags) &&
+	bool no_sg_merge = !!test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE,
+			&q->queue_flags);
+
+	if (no_sg_merge && !bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED) &&
 			bio->bi_vcnt < queue_max_segments(q))
 		bio->bi_phys_segments = bio->bi_vcnt;
 	else {
 		struct bio *nxt = bio->bi_next;
 
 		bio->bi_next = NULL;
-		bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, false);
+		bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio,
+				no_sg_merge);
 		bio->bi_next = nxt;
 	}
 
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Quoted 48 lines · Ming Lei
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Quoted 43 lines · Jeff Mahoney

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Quoted 25 lines · Jeff Moyer
Quoted 16 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

Quoted 6 lines

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Quoted 6 lines

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,

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Quoted 3 lines

This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test if the attached patch fixes your problem?

Ah. Right.

Quoted 3 lines

Please ignore last patch and test the attached patch since we still should use no sg merge to recalculate req's segments for cloned bio.

Yep, this fix works as expected.

Thanks,

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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Quoted 56 lines · Jeff Mahoney

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Quoted 48 lines · Ming Lei
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Quoted 43 lines · Jeff Mahoney

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Quoted 25 lines · Jeff Moyer
Quoted 16 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

Quoted 6 lines

If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

Quoted 6 lines

Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,

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This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test if the attached patch fixes your problem?

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Ah. Right.

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Please ignore last patch and test the attached patch since we still should use no sg merge to recalculate req's segments for cloned bio.

Yep, this fix works as expected.

Thanks Ming, I've queued it up (and added Jeff's tested-by).

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Quoted 16 lines · Jeff Mahoney

Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.

__bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to attach the a request until we finally map it. That also means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and a crash.

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If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and requests properly report the number of segments and everything works as expected.

Originally reported at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259

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Hi, Jeff,

Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied? Or perhaps with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?

Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854 when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here. bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come up with the correct value. In either case,

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This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test if the attached patch fixes your problem?

Ah. Right.

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Please ignore last patch and test the attached patch since we still should use no sg merge to recalculate req's segments for cloned bio.

Yep, this fix works as expected.

Thanks Ming, I've queued it up (and added Jeff's tested-by).

Sorry, looks my patch is still wrong:

- merge should be done if bio->bi_vcnt is bigger than max segment
- if one bio has been cloned from, bi_vcnt can't be relied on too

So that means it may be incorrect to use bio->bi_vcnt in blk_recalc_rq_segments(), but seems like using bio_segments() is a bit expensive for NO_SG_MERGE.

Thanks,