Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/rtrs: Don't call kobject_del for srv_path->kobj

From: Guoqing Jiang
Date: Wed Feb 01 2023 - 20:47:27 EST




On 2/1/23 22:30, Li Zhijian wrote:
As the mention in commmit f7452a7e96c1 ("RDMA/rtrs-srv: fix memory leak by missing kobject free"),
it's intended to remove the kobject_del for srv_path->kobj.

A kernel panic will be triggered by following script
-----------------------
$ while true;
do
echo "sessname=foo path=ip:<ip address> device_path=/dev/nvme0n1" > /sys/devices/virtual/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device
echo "normal" > /sys/block/rnbd0/rnbd/unmap_device
done
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The bisection pointed to commit 6af4609c18b3 ("RDMA/rtrs-srv: Fix several issues in rtrs_srv_destroy_path_files")
at last.

rnbd_server L777: </dev/nvme0n1@foo>: Opened device 'nvme0n1'
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x765f766564753aea: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 3558 Comm: systemd-udevd Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-roce-flush+ #51
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x36/0x180
Code: 00 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 8b 47 68 48 89 fb 48 85 c0 0f 84 db 00 00 00 48 8b a8 60 04 00 00 48 8b 45 30 48 85 c0 48 0f 44 c5 <4c> 8b 60 78 49 81 c4 d8 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 b7 78 7b 00 8b 05 3d
RSP: 0018:ffffaf1700b67c78 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 765f766564753a72 RBX: ffff89e2830849c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff89e2830849c0
RBP: ffff89e280361bd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000065 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff89e2830849c0
R13: ffff89e283084888 R14: d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0 R15: 2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2f
FS: 00007f13fbce7b40(0000) GS:ffff89e2bbc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f93e055d340 CR3: 0000000104664002 CR4: 00000000001706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
lookup_fast+0x7b/0x100
walk_component+0x21/0x160
link_path_walk.part.0+0x24d/0x390
path_openat+0xad/0x9a0
do_filp_open+0xa9/0x150
? lock_release+0x13c/0x2e0
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x50
? alloc_fd+0x124/0x1f0
do_sys_openat2+0x9b/0x160
__x64_sys_openat+0x54/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f13fc9d701b
Code: 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 4b 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 67 44 89 e2 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 91 00 00 00 48 8b 54 24 28 64 48 2b 14 25
RSP: 002b:00007ffddf242640 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f13fc9d701b
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 00007ffddf2427c0 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007ffddf2427c0 R08: 00007f13fcc5b440 R09: 21b2131aa64b1ef2
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000080000
R13: 00007ffddf2427c0 R14: 000055ed13be8db0 R15: 0000000000000000

Fixes: 6af4609c18b3 ("RDMA/rtrs-srv: Fix several issues in rtrs_srv_destroy_path_files")
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c
index da8e205ce331..7fe905424109 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ void rtrs_srv_destroy_path_files(struct rtrs_srv_path *srv_path)
if (srv_path->kobj.state_in_sysfs) {
sysfs_remove_group(&srv_path->kobj, &rtrs_srv_path_attr_group);
- kobject_del(&srv_path->kobj);
kobject_put(&srv_path->kobj);
}

Thanks for the fix, it would be better to comment that why kobject_del can't
be called here.

Anyway, Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Guoqing