This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in '__ext4_journal_ensure_credits' to the 5.10-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-null-ptr-deref-in-__ext4_journal_ensure_credits.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 298b5c521746d69c07beb2757292fb5ccc1b0f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 18:03:41 +0800 Subject: ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in '__ext4_journal_ensure_credits' From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 298b5c521746d69c07beb2757292fb5ccc1b0f85 upstream. We got issue as follows when run syzkaller test: [ 1901.130043] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_remount:5624: comm syz-executor.5: Abort forced by user [ 1901.130901] Aborting journal on device vda-8. [ 1901.131437] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.16: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.131566] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.11: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.132586] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.18: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.132751] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.9: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.136149] EXT4-fs error (device vda) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:6035: Journal has aborted [ 1901.136837] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-fuzzer: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.136915] ================================================================== [ 1901.138175] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x74/0x140 [ext4] [ 1901.138343] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.13: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.138398] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.1: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.138808] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task syz-executor.17/968 [ 1901.138817] [ 1901.138852] EXT4-fs error (device vda): ext4_journal_check_start:61: comm syz-executor.30: Detected aborted journal [ 1901.144779] CPU: 1 PID: 968 Comm: syz-executor.17 Not tainted 4.19.90-vhulk2111.1.0.h893.eulerosv2r10.aarch64+ #1 [ 1901.146479] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 1901.147317] Call trace: [ 1901.147552] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2d8 [ 1901.147898] show_stack+0x28/0x38 [ 1901.148215] dump_stack+0xec/0x15c [ 1901.148746] kasan_report+0x108/0x338 [ 1901.149207] __asan_load8+0x58/0xb0 [ 1901.149753] __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x74/0x140 [ext4] [ 1901.150579] ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xe4/0x700 [ext4] [ 1901.151316] ext4_evict_inode+0x524/0xba8 [ext4] [ 1901.151985] evict+0x1a4/0x378 [ 1901.152353] iput+0x310/0x428 [ 1901.152733] do_unlinkat+0x260/0x428 [ 1901.153056] __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0 [ 1901.153455] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320 [ 1901.153799] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 [ 1901.154265] el0_svc+0x10/0x218 [ 1901.154682] ================================================================== This issue may happens like this: Process1 Process2 ext4_evict_inode ext4_journal_start ext4_truncate ext4_ind_truncate ext4_free_branches ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits ext4_journal_ensure_credits_fn ext4_journal_restart handle->h_transaction = NULL; mount -o remount,abort /mnt -> trigger JBD abort start_this_handle -> will return failed ext4_xattr_delete_inode ext4_journal_ensure_credits ext4_journal_ensure_credits_fn __ext4_journal_ensure_credits jbd2_handle_buffer_credits journal = handle->h_transaction->t_journal; ->null-ptr-deref Now, indirect truncate process didn't handle error. To solve this issue maybe simply add check handle is abort in '__ext4_journal_ensure_credits' is enough, and i also think this is necessary. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211224100341.3299128-1-yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ int __ext4_journal_ensure_credits(handle { if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle)) return 0; + if (is_handle_aborted(handle)) + return -EROFS; if (jbd2_handle_buffer_credits(handle) >= check_cred && handle->h_revoke_credits >= revoke_cred) return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/ext4-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-__ext4_journal_ensure_credits.patch queue-5.10/ext4-fix-bug_on-in-ext4_bread-when-write-quota-data.patch