This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix error handling in ext4_end_enable_verity() to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_end_enable_verity.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f053cf7aa66cd9d592b0fc967f4d887c2abff1b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 12:04:19 -0800 Subject: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_end_enable_verity() From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f053cf7aa66cd9d592b0fc967f4d887c2abff1b7 upstream. ext4 didn't properly clean up if verity failed to be enabled on a file: - It left verity metadata (pages past EOF) in the page cache, which would be exposed to userspace if the file was later extended. - It didn't truncate the verity metadata at all (either from cache or from disk) if an error occurred while setting the verity bit. Fix these bugs by adding a call to truncate_inode_pages() and ensuring that we truncate the verity metadata (both from cache and from disk) in all error paths. Also rework the code to cleanly separate the success path from the error paths, which makes it much easier to understand. Reported-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: c93d8f885809 ("ext4: add basic fs-verity support") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.4+ Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302200420.137977-2-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/verity.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/verity.c +++ b/fs/ext4/verity.c @@ -201,55 +201,76 @@ static int ext4_end_enable_verity(struct struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp); const int credits = 2; /* superblock and inode for ext4_orphan_del() */ handle_t *handle; + struct ext4_iloc iloc; int err = 0; - int err2; - if (desc != NULL) { - /* Succeeded; write the verity descriptor. */ - err = ext4_write_verity_descriptor(inode, desc, desc_size, - merkle_tree_size); - - /* Write all pages before clearing VERITY_IN_PROGRESS. */ - if (!err) - err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); - } + /* + * If an error already occurred (which fs/verity/ signals by passing + * desc == NULL), then only clean-up is needed. + */ + if (desc == NULL) + goto cleanup; - /* If we failed, truncate anything we wrote past i_size. */ - if (desc == NULL || err) - ext4_truncate(inode); + /* Append the verity descriptor. */ + err = ext4_write_verity_descriptor(inode, desc, desc_size, + merkle_tree_size); + if (err) + goto cleanup; /* - * We must always clean up by clearing EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS and - * deleting the inode from the orphan list, even if something failed. - * If everything succeeded, we'll also set the verity bit in the same - * transaction. + * Write all pages (both data and verity metadata). Note that this must + * happen before clearing EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS; otherwise pages + * beyond i_size won't be written properly. For crash consistency, this + * also must happen before the verity inode flag gets persisted. */ + err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); + if (err) + goto cleanup; - ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS); + /* + * Finally, set the verity inode flag and remove the inode from the + * orphan list (in a single transaction). + */ handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, credits); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { - ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode); - return PTR_ERR(handle); + err = PTR_ERR(handle); + goto cleanup; } - err2 = ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode); - if (err2) - goto out_stop; - - if (desc != NULL && !err) { - struct ext4_iloc iloc; - - err = ext4_reserve_inode_write(handle, inode, &iloc); - if (err) - goto out_stop; - ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_VERITY); - ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, false); - err = ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle, inode, &iloc); - } -out_stop: + err = ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode); + if (err) + goto stop_and_cleanup; + + err = ext4_reserve_inode_write(handle, inode, &iloc); + if (err) + goto stop_and_cleanup; + + ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_VERITY); + ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, false); + err = ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle, inode, &iloc); + if (err) + goto stop_and_cleanup; + ext4_journal_stop(handle); - return err ?: err2; + + ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS); + return 0; + +stop_and_cleanup: + ext4_journal_stop(handle); +cleanup: + /* + * Verity failed to be enabled, so clean up by truncating any verity + * metadata that was written beyond i_size (both from cache and from + * disk), removing the inode from the orphan list (if it wasn't done + * already), and clearing EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS. + */ + truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, inode->i_size); + ext4_truncate(inode); + ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode); + ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_VERITY_IN_PROGRESS); + return err; } static int ext4_get_verity_descriptor_location(struct inode *inode, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_end_enable_verity.patch