[un]pin_user_pages_remote is dirtying pages without properly warning the file system in advance. This was noted by Jan Kara in 2018[1] and more recently has resulted in bug reports by Syzbot in various Android kernels[2]. This is technically a bug in mm/gup.c, but arguably ext4 is fragile in that a buggy kernel subsystem which dirty pages without properly notifying the file system causes ext4 to BUG, while other file systems are not (although user data likely will be lost). I suspect in real life it is rare that people are using RDMA into file-backed memory, which is why no one has complained to ext4 developers except fuzzing programs. So instead of crashing with a BUG, issue a warning (since there may be potential data loss) and just mark the page as clean to avoid unprivileged denial of service attacks until the problem can be properly fixed. More discussion and background can be found in the thread starting at [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+d59332e2db681cf18f0318a06e994ebbb529a8db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 01c9e4f743ba..008fe8750109 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1993,6 +1993,15 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *page, else len = PAGE_SIZE; + /* Should never happen but for bugs in other kernel subsystems */ + if (!page_has_buffers(page)) { + ext4_warning_inode(inode, + "page %lu does not have buffers attached", page->index); + ClearPageDirty(page); + unlock_page(page); + return 0; + } + page_bufs = page_buffers(page); /* * We cannot do block allocation or other extent handling in this @@ -2588,12 +2597,28 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd) (mpd->wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)) || unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) { unlock_page(page); - continue; + goto out; } wait_on_page_writeback(page); BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page)); + /* + * Should never happen but for buggy code in + * other subsystems that call + * set_page_dirty() without properly warning + * the file system first. See [1] for more + * information. + * + * [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx + */ + if (!page_has_buffers(page)) { + ext4_warning_inode(mpd->inode, "page %lu does not have buffers attached", page->index); + ClearPageDirty(page); + unlock_page(page); + continue; + } + if (mpd->map.m_len == 0) mpd->first_page = page->index; mpd->next_page = page->index + 1; -- 2.31.0
