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    dm: fix dm-raid crash if md_handle_request() splits bio · 9dd1cd32
    Mike Snitzer authored
    Commit ca522482 ("dm: pass NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone")
    introduced the optimization to _not_ perform bio_associate_blkg()'s
    relatively costly work when DM core clones its bio. But in doing so it
    exposed the possibility for DM's cloned bio to alter DM target
    behavior (e.g. crash) if a target were to issue IO without first
    calling bio_set_dev().
    
    The DM raid target can trigger an MD crash due to its need to split
    the DM bio that is passed to md_handle_request(). The split will
    recurse to submit_bio_noacct() using a bio with an uninitialized
    ->bi_blkg. This NULL bio->bi_blkg causes blk_throtl_bio() to
    dereference a NULL blkg_to_tg(bio->bi_blkg).
    
    Fix this in DM core by adding a new 'needs_bio_set_dev' target flag that
    will make alloc_tio() call bio_set_dev() on behalf of the target.
    dm-raid is the only target that requires this flag. bio_set_dev()
    initializes the DM cloned bio's ->bi_blkg, using bio_associate_blkg,
    before passing the bio to md_handle_request().
    
    Long-term fix would be to audit and refactor MD code to rely on DM to
    split its bio, using dm_accept_partial_bio(), but there are MD raid
    personalities (e.g. raid1 and raid10) whose implementation are tightly
    coupled to handling the bio splitting inline.
    
    Fixes: ca522482 ("dm: pass NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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