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    IB/hfi1: Use after free race condition in send context error path · f9e76ca3
    Michael J. Ruhl authored
    
    
    A pio send egress error can occur when the PSM library attempts to
    to send a bad packet.  That issue is still being investigated.
    
    The pio error interrupt handler then attempts to progress the recovery
    of the errored pio send context.
    
    Code inspection reveals that the handling lacks the necessary locking
    if that recovery interleaves with a PSM close of the "context" object
    contains the pio send context.
    
    The lack of the locking can cause the recovery to access the already
    freed pio send context object and incorrectly deduce that the pio
    send context is actually a kernel pio send context as shown by the
    NULL deref stack below:
    
    [<ffffffff8143d78c>] _dev_info+0x6c/0x90
    [<ffffffffc0613230>] sc_restart+0x70/0x1f0 [hfi1]
    [<ffffffff816ab124>] ? __schedule+0x424/0x9b0
    [<ffffffffc06133c5>] sc_halted+0x15/0x20 [hfi1]
    [<ffffffff810aa3ba>] process_one_work+0x17a/0x440
    [<ffffffff810ab086>] worker_thread+0x126/0x3c0
    [<ffffffff810aaf60>] ? manage_workers.isra.24+0x2a0/0x2a0
    [<ffffffff810b252f>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
    [<ffffffff810b2460>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
    [<ffffffff816b8798>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
    [<ffffffff810b2460>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
    
    This is the best case scenario and other scenarios can corrupt the
    already freed memory.
    
    Fix by adding the necessary locking in the pio send context error
    handler.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.x
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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