This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free 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: btrfs-fix-race-between-transaction-aborts-and-fsyncs-leading-to-use-after-free.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 061dde8245356d8864d29e25207aa4daa0be4d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 12:32:16 +0100 Subject: btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> commit 061dde8245356d8864d29e25207aa4daa0be4d3c upstream. There is a race between a task aborting a transaction during a commit, a task doing an fsync and the transaction kthread, which leads to an use-after-free of the log root tree. When this happens, it results in a stack trace like the following: BTRFS info (device dm-0): forced readonly BTRFS warning (device dm-0): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in cleanup_transaction:1958: errno=-5 IO failure BTRFS warning (device dm-0): lost page write due to IO error on /dev/mapper/error-test (-5) BTRFS warning (device dm-0): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0xa4e8 len 4096 err no 10 BTRFS error (device dm-0): error writing primary super block to device 1 BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e000 len 4096 err no 10 BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e008 len 4096 err no 10 BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e010 len 4096 err no 10 BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in write_all_supers:4110: errno=-5 IO failure (1 errors while writing supers) BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in btrfs_sync_log:3308: errno=-5 IO failure general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b68: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI CPU: 2 PID: 2458471 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-btrfs-next-84 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0x139/0xa40 Code: c0 74 19 (...) RSP: 0018:ffff9f18830d7b00 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b68 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: ffffffffb9c54d13 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff9f18830d7bc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff9f18830d7be0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8c6cd199c040 R13: ffff8c6c95821358 R14: 00000000fffffffb R15: ffff8c6cbcf01358 FS: 00007fa9140c2b80(0000) GS:ffff8c6fac600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fa913d52000 CR3: 000000013d2b4003 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ? __btrfs_handle_fs_error+0xde/0x146 [btrfs] ? btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs] ? btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs] btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs] btrfs_sync_file+0x40c/0x580 [btrfs] do_fsync+0x38/0x70 __x64_sys_fsync+0x10/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7fa9142a55c3 Code: 8b 15 09 (...) RSP: 002b:00007fff26278d48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004a RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000563c83cb4560 RCX: 00007fa9142a55c3 RDX: 00007fff26278cb0 RSI: 00007fff26278cb0 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 0000000000000005 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007fff26278d5c R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000340 R13: 00007fff26278de0 R14: 00007fff26278d96 R15: 0000563c83ca57c0 Modules linked in: btrfs dm_zero dm_snapshot dm_thin_pool (...) ---[ end trace ee2f1b19327d791d ]--- The steps that lead to this crash are the following: 1) We are at transaction N; 2) We have two tasks with a transaction handle attached to transaction N. Task A and Task B. Task B is doing an fsync; 3) Task B is at btrfs_sync_log(), and has saved fs_info->log_root_tree into a local variable named 'log_root_tree' at the top of btrfs_sync_log(). Task B is about to call write_all_supers(), but before that... 4) Task A calls btrfs_commit_transaction(), and after it sets the transaction state to TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START, an error happens before it waits for the transaction's 'num_writers' counter to reach a value of 1 (no one else attached to the transaction), so it jumps to the label "cleanup_transaction"; 5) Task A then calls cleanup_transaction(), where it aborts the transaction, setting BTRFS_FS_STATE_TRANS_ABORTED on fs_info->fs_state, setting the ->aborted field of the transaction and the handle to an errno value and also setting BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR on fs_info->fs_state. After that, at cleanup_transaction(), it deletes the transaction from the list of transactions (fs_info->trans_list), sets the transaction to the state TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING and then waits for the number of writers to go down to 1, as it's currently 2 (1 for task A and 1 for task B); 6) The transaction kthread is running and sees that BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR is set in fs_info->fs_state, so it calls btrfs_cleanup_transaction(). There it sees the list fs_info->trans_list is empty, and then proceeds into calling btrfs_drop_all_logs(), which frees the log root tree with a call to btrfs_free_log_root_tree(); 7) Task B calls write_all_supers() and, shortly after, under the label 'out_wake_log_root', it deferences the pointer stored in 'log_root_tree', which was already freed in the previous step by the transaction kthread. This results in a use-after-free leading to a crash. Fix this by deleting the transaction from the list of transactions at cleanup_transaction() only after setting the transaction state to TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING and waiting for all existing tasks that are attached to the transaction to release their transaction handles. This makes the transaction kthread wait for all the tasks attached to the transaction to be done with the transaction before dropping the log roots and doing other cleanups. Fixes: ef67963dac255b ("btrfs: drop logs when we've aborted a transaction") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.10+ Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c @@ -1947,7 +1947,6 @@ static void cleanup_transaction(struct b */ BUG_ON(list_empty(&cur_trans->list)); - list_del_init(&cur_trans->list); if (cur_trans == fs_info->running_transaction) { cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING; spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock); @@ -1956,6 +1955,17 @@ static void cleanup_transaction(struct b spin_lock(&fs_info->trans_lock); } + + /* + * Now that we know no one else is still using the transaction we can + * remove the transaction from the list of transactions. This avoids + * the transaction kthread from cleaning up the transaction while some + * other task is still using it, which could result in a use-after-free + * on things like log trees, as it forces the transaction kthread to + * wait for this transaction to be cleaned up by us. + */ + list_del_init(&cur_trans->list); + spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock); btrfs_cleanup_one_transaction(trans->transaction, fs_info); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fdmanana@xxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/btrfs-fix-race-between-transaction-aborts-and-fsyncs-leading-to-use-after-free.patch queue-5.11/btrfs-fix-metadata-extent-leak-after-failure-to-create-subvolume.patch