This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix an use-after-free issue about data=journal writeback mode to the 5.16-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-an-use-after-free-issue-about-data-journal-writeback-mode.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5c48a7df91499e371ef725895b2e2d21a126e227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 17:09:37 +0800 Subject: ext4: fix an use-after-free issue about data=journal writeback mode From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5c48a7df91499e371ef725895b2e2d21a126e227 upstream. Our syzkaller report an use-after-free issue that accessing the freed buffer_head on the writeback page in __ext4_journalled_writepage(). The problem is that if there was a truncate racing with the data=journalled writeback procedure, the writeback length could become zero and bget_one() refuse to get buffer_head's refcount, then the truncate procedure release buffer once we drop page lock, finally, the last ext4_walk_page_buffers() trigger the use-after-free problem. sync truncate ext4_sync_file() file_write_and_wait_range() ext4_setattr(0) inode->i_size = 0 ext4_writepage() len = 0 __ext4_journalled_writepage() page_bufs = page_buffers(page) ext4_walk_page_buffers(bget_one) <- does not get refcount do_invalidatepage() free_buffer_head() ext4_walk_page_buffers(page_bufs) <- trigger use-after-free After commit bdf96838aea6 ("ext4: fix race between truncate and __ext4_journalled_writepage()"), we have already handled the racing case, so the bget_one() and bput_one() are not needed. So this patch simply remove these hunk, and recheck the i_size to make it safe. Fixes: bdf96838aea6 ("ext4: fix race between truncate and __ext4_journalled_writepage()") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211225090937.712867-1-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 37 ++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1845,30 +1845,16 @@ int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct inode return 0; } -static int bget_one(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, - struct buffer_head *bh) -{ - get_bh(bh); - return 0; -} - -static int bput_one(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, - struct buffer_head *bh) -{ - put_bh(bh); - return 0; -} - static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(struct page *page, unsigned int len) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; struct inode *inode = mapping->host; - struct buffer_head *page_bufs = NULL; handle_t *handle = NULL; int ret = 0, err = 0; int inline_data = ext4_has_inline_data(inode); struct buffer_head *inode_bh = NULL; + loff_t size; ClearPageChecked(page); @@ -1878,14 +1864,6 @@ static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(s inode_bh = ext4_journalled_write_inline_data(inode, len, page); if (inode_bh == NULL) goto out; - } else { - page_bufs = page_buffers(page); - if (!page_bufs) { - BUG(); - goto out; - } - ext4_walk_page_buffers(handle, inode, page_bufs, 0, len, - NULL, bget_one); } /* * We need to release the page lock before we start the @@ -1906,7 +1884,8 @@ static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(s lock_page(page); put_page(page); - if (page->mapping != mapping) { + size = i_size_read(inode); + if (page->mapping != mapping || page_offset(page) > size) { /* The page got truncated from under us */ ext4_journal_stop(handle); ret = 0; @@ -1916,6 +1895,13 @@ static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(s if (inline_data) { ret = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); } else { + struct buffer_head *page_bufs = page_buffers(page); + + if (page->index == size >> PAGE_SHIFT) + len = size & ~PAGE_MASK; + else + len = PAGE_SIZE; + ret = ext4_walk_page_buffers(handle, inode, page_bufs, 0, len, NULL, do_journal_get_write_access); @@ -1936,9 +1922,6 @@ static int __ext4_journalled_writepage(s out: unlock_page(page); out_no_pagelock: - if (!inline_data && page_bufs) - ext4_walk_page_buffers(NULL, inode, page_bufs, 0, len, - NULL, bput_one); brelse(inode_bh); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.16/ext4-fix-an-use-after-free-issue-about-data-journal-writeback-mode.patch