From: Cengiz Can Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 13:58:19 +0300 Subject: blktrace: fix dereference after null check Origin: https://git.kernel.org/linus/153031a301bb07194e9c37466cfce8eacb977621 There was a recent change in blktrace.c that added a RCU protection to `q->blk_trace` in order to fix a use-after-free issue during access. However the change missed an edge case that can lead to dereferencing of `bt` pointer even when it's NULL: Coverity static analyzer marked this as a FORWARD_NULL issue with CID 1460458. ``` /kernel/trace/blktrace.c: 1904 in sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store() 1898 ret = 0; 1899 if (bt == NULL) 1900 ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev); 1901 1902 if (ret == 0) { 1903 if (attr == &dev_attr_act_mask) >>> CID 1460458: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) >>> Dereferencing null pointer "bt". 1904 bt->act_mask = value; 1905 else if (attr == &dev_attr_pid) 1906 bt->pid = value; 1907 else if (attr == &dev_attr_start_lba) 1908 bt->start_lba = value; 1909 else if (attr == &dev_attr_end_lba) ``` Added a reassignment with RCU annotation to fix the issue. Fixes: c780e86dd48 ("blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU") Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Bob Liu Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c index 99f6cdbf2f540..6cea8bbca03cb 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -1893,8 +1893,11 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev, } ret = 0; - if (bt == NULL) + if (bt == NULL) { ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev); + bt = rcu_dereference_protected(q->blk_trace, + lockdep_is_held(&q->blk_trace_mutex)); + } if (ret == 0) { if (attr == &dev_attr_act_mask) -- 2.20.1