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A race condition was found in sg_proc_debug_helper(). It was observed on a system using an IBM LTO-9 SAS Tape Drive (ULTRIUM-TD9) and monitoring /proc/scsi/sg/debug every second. A very large elapsed time would sometimes appear. This is caused by two race conditions. We reproduced the issue with an IBM ULTRIUM-HH9 tape drive on an x86_64 architecture. A patched kernel was built, and the race condition could not be observed anymore after the application of this patch. A reproducer C program utilising the scsi_debug module was also built by Changhui Zhong and can be viewed here: https://github.com/MichaelRabek/linux-tests/blob/master/drivers/scsi/sg/sg_race_trigger.c The first race happens between the reading of hp->duration in sg_proc_debug_helper() and request completion in sg_rq_end_io(). The hp->duration member variable may hold either of two types of information: #1 - The start time of the request. This value is present while the request is not yet finished. #2 - The total execution time of the request (end_time - start_time). If sg_proc_debug_helper() executes *after* the value of hp->duration was changed from #1 to #2, but *before* srp->done is set to 1 in sg_rq_end_io(), a fresh timestamp is taken in the else branch, and the elapsed time (value type #2) is subtracted from a timestamp, which cannot yield a valid elapsed time (which is a type #2 value as well). To fix this issue, the value of hp->duration must change under the protection of the sfp->rq_list_lock in sg_rq_end_io(). Since sg_proc_debug_helper() takes this read lock, the change to srp->done and srp->header.duration will happen atomically from the perspective of sg_proc_debug_helper() and the race condition is thus eliminated. The second race condition happens between sg_proc_debug_helper() and sg_new_write(). Even though hp->duration is set to the current time stamp in sg_add_request() under the write lock's protection, it gets overwritten by a call to get_sg_io_hdr(), which calls copy_from_user() to copy struct sg_io_hdr from userspace into kernel space. hp->duration is set to the start time again in sg_common_write(). If sg_proc_debug_helper() is called between these two calls, an arbitrary value set by userspace (usually zero) is used to compute the elapsed time. To fix this issue, hp->duration must be set to the current timestamp again after get_sg_io_hdr() returns successfully. A small race window still exists between get_sg_io_hdr() and setting hp->duration, but this window is only a few instructions wide and does not result in observable issues in practice, as confirmed by testing. Additionally, we fix the format specifier from %d to %u for printing unsigned int values in sg_proc_debug_helper(). Signed-off-by: Michal Rábek <mrabek@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Tested-by: Changhui Zhong <czhong@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Meneghini <jmeneghi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251212160900.64924-1-mrabek@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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