I caught a null-ptr-deref bug as follows:
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KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
CPU: 1 PID: 1589 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-02219-dirty #339
RIP: 0010:ext4_write_info+0x53/0x1b0
[...]
Call Trace:
dquot_writeback_dquots+0x341/0x9a0
ext4_sync_fs+0x19e/0x800
__sync_filesystem+0x83/0x100
sync_filesystem+0x89/0xf0
generic_shutdown_super+0x79/0x3e0
kill_block_super+0xa1/0x110
deactivate_locked_super+0xac/0x130
deactivate_super+0xb6/0xd0
cleanup_mnt+0x289/0x400
__cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20
task_work_run+0x11c/0x1c0
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x203/0x210
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5b/0x3a0
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x70
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
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Above issue may happen as follows:
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exit_to_user_mode_prepare
task_work_run
__cleanup_mnt
cleanup_mnt
deactivate_super
deactivate_locked_super
kill_block_super
generic_shutdown_super
shrink_dcache_for_umount
dentry = sb->s_root
sb->s_root = NULL <--- Here set NULL
sync_filesystem
__sync_filesystem
sb->s_op->sync_fs > ext4_sync_fs
dquot_writeback_dquots
sb->dq_op->write_info > ext4_write_info
ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2)
d_inode(sb->s_root)
s_root->d_inode <--- Null pointer dereference
To solve this problem, we use ext4_journal_start_sb directly
to avoid s_root being used.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 9a66abcca1a8..0ce4565422f6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -6653,7 +6653,7 @@ static int ext4_write_info(struct super_block *sb, int type)
handle_t *handle;
/* Data block + inode block */
- handle = ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2);
+ handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2);
if (IS_ERR(handle))
return PTR_ERR(handle);
ret = dquot_commit_info(sb, type);
--
2.31.1
