Re: [PATCH] net, cgroup: Fix boot failure due to iteration of uninitialized list

[Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:57:37PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> After commit ef209f15 (net: cgroup: fix access the unallocated memory in
> netprio cgroup), boot fails with the following NULL pointer dereference:
> 
> Initializing cgroup subsys devices
> Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
> Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
> Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
> Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
> Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000698
> IP: [<ffffffff8145e8d6>] cgrp_create+0xf6/0x190
> PGD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in:
> 
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.5.0-rc7-mandeep #1 IBM IBM System x -[7870C4Q]-/68Y8033
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8145e8d6>]  [<ffffffff8145e8d6>] cgrp_create+0xf6/0x190
> RSP: 0000:ffffffff81a01ea8  EFLAGS: 00010213
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffffffff10 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffffffff81aa70a0
> RBP: ffffffff81a01ed8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: ffff8808ff8641c0 R11: 6e697a696c616974 R12: 0000000000000001
> R13: ffff8808ff8641c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000093970
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8808ffc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000698 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a13420)
> Stack:
>  ffffffff81a01eb8 ffffffff818060ff ffffffff81d75ec8 ffffffff81aa8960
>  ffffffff81aa8960 ffffffff81b4c2c0 ffffffff81a01ef8 ffffffff81b1cb78
>  0000000000000018 0000000000000048 ffffffff81a01f18 ffffffff81b1ce13
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff81b1cb78>] cgroup_init_subsys+0x83/0x169
>  [<ffffffff81b1ce13>] cgroup_init+0x36/0x119
>  [<ffffffff81affef7>] start_kernel+0x3ba/0x3ef
>  [<ffffffff81aff95b>] ? kernel_init+0x27b/0x27b
>  [<ffffffff81aff356>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x136
>  [<ffffffff81aff45e>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112
> Code: 01 48 3d f8 e1 ec 81 48 8d 98 10 ff ff ff 75 1b eb 73 0f 1f 00 48 8b 83 f0 00 00 00 48 3d f8 e1 ec 81 48 8d 98 10 ff ff ff 74 5a <48> 8b 83 88 07 00 00 48 85 c0 74 de 44 3b 60 10 76 d8 44 89 e6
> RIP  [<ffffffff8145e8d6>] cgrp_create+0xf6/0x190
>  RSP <ffffffff81a01ea8>
> CR2: 0000000000000698
> ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> 
> The code corresponds to:
> 
> update_netdev_tables():
>         for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
>                 map = rtnl_dereference(dev->priomap);  <---- HERE
> 
> 
> The list head is initialized in netdev_init(), which is called much
> later than cgrp_create(). So the problem is that we are calling
> update_netdev_tables() way too early (in cgrp_create()), which will
> end up traversing the not-yet-circular linked list. So at some point,
> the dev pointer will become NULL and hence dev->priomap becomes an
> invalid access.
> 
> To fix this, just remove the update_netdev_tables() function entirely,
> since it appears that write_update_netdev_table() will handle things
> just fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Requesting a thorough review of this patch, since I am not sure whether
> removing update_netdev_tables() is perfectly OK and whether that is the
> right thing to do.
> 
We could do this I suppose, but this has already been fixed by
734b65417b24d6eea3e3d7457e1f11493890ee1d
> 
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