This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount
to the 4.14-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:
nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8cccf05fe857a18ee26e20d11a8455a73ffd4efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:29:59 +0900
Subject: nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount
From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 8cccf05fe857a18ee26e20d11a8455a73ffd4efd upstream.
If a nilfs2 filesystem is downgraded to read-only due to metadata
corruption on disk and is remounted read/write, or if emergency read-only
remount is performed, detaching a log writer and synchronizing the
filesystem can be done at the same time.
In these cases, use-after-free of the log writer (hereinafter
nilfs->ns_writer) can happen as shown in the scenario below:
Task1 Task2
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
nilfs_construct_segment
nilfs_segctor_sync
init_wait
init_waitqueue_entry
add_wait_queue
schedule
nilfs_remount (R/W remount case)
nilfs_attach_log_writer
nilfs_detach_log_writer
nilfs_segctor_destroy
kfree
finish_wait
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave
do_raw_spin_lock
debug_spin_lock_before <-- use-after-free
While Task1 is sleeping, nilfs->ns_writer is freed by Task2. After Task1
waked up, Task1 accesses nilfs->ns_writer which is already freed. This
scenario diagram is based on the Shigeru Yoshida's post [1].
This patch fixes the issue by not detaching nilfs->ns_writer on remount so
that this UAF race doesn't happen. Along with this change, this patch
also inserts a few necessary read-only checks with superblock instance
where only the ns_writer pointer was used to check if the filesystem is
read-only.
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=79a4c002e960419ca173d55e863bd09e8112df8b
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221103141759.1836312-1-syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221104142959.28296-1-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+f816fa82f8783f7a02bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 15 ++++++++-------
fs/nilfs2/super.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void nilfs_relax_pressure_in_lock(struct
struct the_nilfs *nilfs = sb->s_fs_info;
struct nilfs_sc_info *sci = nilfs->ns_writer;
- if (!sci || !sci->sc_flush_request)
+ if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci) || !sci->sc_flush_request)
return;
set_bit(NILFS_SC_PRIOR_FLUSH, &sci->sc_flags);
@@ -2256,7 +2256,7 @@ int nilfs_construct_segment(struct super
struct nilfs_transaction_info *ti;
int err;
- if (!sci)
+ if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci))
return -EROFS;
/* A call inside transactions causes a deadlock. */
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ int nilfs_construct_dsync_segment(struct
struct nilfs_transaction_info ti;
int err = 0;
- if (!sci)
+ if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci))
return -EROFS;
nilfs_transaction_lock(sb, &ti, 0);
@@ -2792,11 +2792,12 @@ int nilfs_attach_log_writer(struct super
if (nilfs->ns_writer) {
/*
- * This happens if the filesystem was remounted
- * read/write after nilfs_error degenerated it into a
- * read-only mount.
+ * This happens if the filesystem is made read-only by
+ * __nilfs_error or nilfs_remount and then remounted
+ * read/write. In these cases, reuse the existing
+ * writer.
*/
- nilfs_detach_log_writer(sb);
+ return 0;
}
nilfs->ns_writer = nilfs_segctor_new(sb, root);
--- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/super.c
@@ -1148,8 +1148,6 @@ static int nilfs_remount(struct super_bl
if ((bool)(*flags & MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(sb))
goto out;
if (*flags & MS_RDONLY) {
- /* Shutting down log writer */
- nilfs_detach_log_writer(sb);
sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount.patch
queue-4.14/nilfs2-fix-deadlock-in-nilfs_count_free_blocks.patch
