Thank you for looking into this!
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:46 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun 13-11-22 17:24:39, Svyatoslav Feldsherov wrote:
> > After commit cbfecb927f42 ("fs: record I_DIRTY_TIME even if inode
> > already has I_DIRTY_INODE") writeiback_single_inode can push inode with
> > I_DIRTY_TIME set to b_dirty_time list. In case of freeing inode with
> > I_DIRTY_TIME set this can happened after deletion of inode io_list at
> > evict. Stack trace is following.
> >
> > evict
> > fat_evict_inode
> > fat_truncate_blocks
> > fat_flush_inodes
> > writeback_inode
> > sync_inode_metadata
> > writeback_single_inode
> >
> > This will lead to use after free in flusher thread.
> >
> > Fixes: cbfecb927f42 ("fs: record I_DIRTY_TIME even if inode already has I_DIRTY_INODE")
> > Reported-by: syzbot+6ba92bd00d5093f7e371@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Feldsherov <feldsherov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the analysis! I was scratching my head over this syzbot report
> for a while and it didn't occur to me somebody could be calling
> writeback_single_inode() from the .evict callback.
>
> Also what contributes to the problem is that FAT calls
> sync_inode_metadata(inode, 0) so it is not marking this final flush as data
> integrity sync and so we happily leave the I_DIRTY_TIME bit set.
>
> > diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > index 443f83382b9b..31c93cbdb3fe 100644
> > --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > @@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ static int writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
> > */
> > if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
> > inode_cgwb_move_to_attached(inode, wb);
> > - else if (!(inode->i_state & I_SYNC_QUEUED)) {
> > + else if (!(inode->i_state & (I_SYNC_QUEUED | I_FREEING))) {
> > if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> > redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
> > else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
>
> So even calling inode_cgwb_move_to_attached() is not safe when I_FREEING is
> already set. So I belive the I_FREEING bit check needs to be before this
> whole if block.
Agree, let me move the I_FREEING check before this if block.
The commit I am fixing didn't change this codepath, so I suspect there is an
implicit invariant which keeps inode_cgwb_move_to_attached call safe.
But I am 100% in favor of making I_FREEING check explicitly.
>
> I also think we should add some assertions into i_io_list handling
> functions to complain if I_FREEING bit is set to catch these problems
> earlier which means to be also more careful in __mark_inode_dirty(). But
> this is for a separate cleanup.
>
> Honza
Sounds reasonable. Will look into that afterwards.
> --
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR
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