This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix possible UAF when remounting r/o a mmp-protected file system to the 5.13-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-possible-uaf-when-remounting-r-o-a-mmp-protected-file-system.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 61bb4a1c417e5b95d9edb4f887f131de32e419cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:45:02 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix possible UAF when remounting r/o a mmp-protected file system From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 61bb4a1c417e5b95d9edb4f887f131de32e419cb upstream. After commit 618f003199c6 ("ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super"), after the file system is remounted read-only, there is a race where the kmmpd thread can exit, causing sbi->s_mmp_tsk to point at freed memory, which the call to ext4_stop_mmpd() can trip over. Fix this by only allowing kmmpd() to exit when it is stopped via ext4_stop_mmpd(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707002433.3719773-1-tytso@xxxxxxx Reported-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Bug-Report-Link: <20210629143603.2166962-1-yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mmp.c | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c @@ -156,7 +156,12 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data) memcpy(mmp->mmp_nodename, init_utsname()->nodename, sizeof(mmp->mmp_nodename)); - while (!kthread_should_stop()) { + while (!kthread_should_stop() && !sb_rdonly(sb)) { + if (!ext4_has_feature_mmp(sb)) { + ext4_warning(sb, "kmmpd being stopped since MMP feature" + " has been disabled."); + goto wait_to_exit; + } if (++seq > EXT4_MMP_SEQ_MAX) seq = 1; @@ -177,16 +182,6 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data) failed_writes++; } - if (!(le32_to_cpu(es->s_feature_incompat) & - EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_MMP)) { - ext4_warning(sb, "kmmpd being stopped since MMP feature" - " has been disabled."); - goto exit_thread; - } - - if (sb_rdonly(sb)) - break; - diff = jiffies - last_update_time; if (diff < mmp_update_interval * HZ) schedule_timeout_interruptible(mmp_update_interval * @@ -207,7 +202,7 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data) ext4_error_err(sb, -retval, "error reading MMP data: %d", retval); - goto exit_thread; + goto wait_to_exit; } mmp_check = (struct mmp_struct *)(bh_check->b_data); @@ -221,7 +216,7 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data) ext4_error_err(sb, EBUSY, "abort"); put_bh(bh_check); retval = -EBUSY; - goto exit_thread; + goto wait_to_exit; } put_bh(bh_check); } @@ -244,7 +239,13 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data) retval = write_mmp_block(sb, bh); -exit_thread: +wait_to_exit: + while (!kthread_should_stop()) { + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + if (!kthread_should_stop()) + schedule(); + } + set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); return retval; } @@ -391,5 +392,3 @@ failed: brelse(bh); return 1; } - - --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5996,7 +5996,6 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_blo */ ext4_mark_recovery_complete(sb, es); } - ext4_stop_mmpd(sbi); } else { /* Make sure we can mount this feature set readwrite */ if (ext4_has_feature_readonly(sb) || @@ -6110,6 +6109,9 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_blo if (!test_opt(sb, BLOCK_VALIDITY) && sbi->s_system_blks) ext4_release_system_zone(sb); + if (!ext4_has_feature_mmp(sb) || sb_rdonly(sb)) + ext4_stop_mmpd(sbi); + /* * Some options can be enabled by ext4 and/or by VFS mount flag * either way we need to make sure it matches in both *flags and @@ -6143,6 +6145,8 @@ restore_opts: for (i = 0; i < EXT4_MAXQUOTAS; i++) kfree(to_free[i]); #endif + if (!ext4_has_feature_mmp(sb) || sb_rdonly(sb)) + ext4_stop_mmpd(sbi); kfree(orig_data); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-5.13/ext4-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_fill_super.patch queue-5.13/ext4-fix-possible-uaf-when-remounting-r-o-a-mmp-protected-file-system.patch