Re: Fix filesystem deadlock while reading corrupted xattr block

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:42:46PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> This bug can be reproducible with fsfuzzer, although, I couldn't reproduce it
> 100% of my tries, it is quite easily reproducible.
> 
> During the deletion of an inode, ext2_xattr_delete_inode() does not check if the
> block pointed by EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl is a valid data block, this might
> lead to a deadlock, when i_file_acl == 1, and the filesystem block size is 1024.
> 
> In that situation, ext2_xattr_delete_inode, will load the superblock's buffer
> head (instead of a valid i_file_acl block), and then lock that buffer head,
> which, ext2_sync_super will also try to lock, making the filesystem deadlock in
> the following stack trace:
> 
> root     17180  0.0  0.0 113660   660 pts/0    D+   07:08   0:00 rmdir
> /media/test/dir1
> 
> [<ffffffff8125da9f>] __sync_dirty_buffer+0xaf/0x100
> [<ffffffff8125db03>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x13/0x20
> [<ffffffffa03f0d57>] ext2_sync_super+0xb7/0xc0 [ext2]
> [<ffffffffa03f10b9>] ext2_error+0x119/0x130 [ext2]
> [<ffffffffa03e9d93>] ext2_free_blocks+0x83/0x350 [ext2]
> [<ffffffffa03f3d03>] ext2_xattr_delete_inode+0x173/0x190 [ext2]
> [<ffffffffa03ee9e9>] ext2_evict_inode+0xc9/0x130 [ext2]
> [<ffffffff8123fd23>] evict+0xb3/0x180
> [<ffffffff81240008>] iput+0x1b8/0x240
> [<ffffffff8123c4ac>] d_delete+0x11c/0x150
> [<ffffffff8122fa7e>] vfs_rmdir+0xfe/0x120
> [<ffffffff812340ee>] do_rmdir+0x17e/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff81234dd6>] SyS_rmdir+0x16/0x20
> [<ffffffff81838cf2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> Fix this by using the same approach ext4 uses to test data blocks validity,
> implementing ext2_data_block_valid.
> 
> An another possibility when the superblock is very corrupted, is that i_file_acl
> is 1, block_count is 1 and first_data_block is 0. For such situations, we might
> have i_file_acl pointing to a 'valid' block, but still step over the superblock.
> The approach I used was to also test if the superblock is not in the range
> described by ext2_data_block_valid() arguments
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.  I'll carry this patch in the ext4 tree.

		       	     	  	       	    - Ted
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