This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: fix race between quota rescan and disable leading to NULL pointer deref 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: btrfs-fix-race-between-quota-rescan-and-disable-leading-to-null-pointer-deref.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 b7adbf9ada3513d2092362c8eac5cddc5b651f5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:31:08 +0000 Subject: btrfs: fix race between quota rescan and disable leading to NULL pointer deref From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> commit b7adbf9ada3513d2092362c8eac5cddc5b651f5c upstream. If we have one task trying to start the quota rescan worker while another one is trying to disable quotas, we can end up hitting a race that results in the quota rescan worker doing a NULL pointer dereference. The steps for this are the following: 1) Quotas are enabled; 2) Task A calls the quota rescan ioctl and enters btrfs_qgroup_rescan(). It calls qgroup_rescan_init() which returns 0 (success) and then joins a transaction and commits it; 3) Task B calls the quota disable ioctl and enters btrfs_quota_disable(). It clears the bit BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED from fs_info->flags and calls btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which returns immediately since the rescan worker is not yet running. Then it starts a transaction and locks fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock; 4) Task A queues the rescan worker, by calling btrfs_queue_work(); 5) The rescan worker starts, and calls rescan_should_stop() at the start of its while loop, which results in 0 iterations of the loop, since the flag BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED was cleared from fs_info->flags by task B at step 3); 6) Task B sets fs_info->quota_root to NULL; 7) The rescan worker tries to start a transaction and uses fs_info->quota_root as the root argument for btrfs_start_transaction(). This results in a NULL pointer dereference down the call chain of btrfs_start_transaction(). The stack trace is something like the one reported in Link tag below: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000041: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000208-0x000000000000020f] CPU: 1 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 6.1.0-syzkaller-13872-gb6bb9676f216 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Workqueue: btrfs-qgroup-rescan btrfs_work_helper RIP: 0010:start_transaction+0x48/0x10f0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:564 Code: 48 89 fb 48 (...) RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ab7ab0 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000041 RBX: 0000000000000208 RCX: ffff88801779ba80 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52000156f5d R10: fffff52000156f5d R11: 1ffff92000156f5c R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000003 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2bea75b718 CR3: 000000001d0cc000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker+0x3bb/0x6a0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3402 btrfs_work_helper+0x312/0x850 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:280 process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308 </TASK> Modules linked in: So fix this by having the rescan worker function not attempt to start a transaction if it didn't do any rescan work. Reported-by: syzbot+96977faa68092ad382c4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/000000000000e5454b05f065a803@xxxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: e804861bd4e6 ("btrfs: fix deadlock between quota disable and qgroup rescan worker") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.4+ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c @@ -3296,6 +3296,7 @@ static void btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker(s int err = -ENOMEM; int ret = 0; bool stopped = false; + bool did_leaf_rescans = false; path = btrfs_alloc_path(); if (!path) @@ -3316,6 +3317,7 @@ static void btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker(s } err = qgroup_rescan_leaf(trans, path); + did_leaf_rescans = true; if (err > 0) btrfs_commit_transaction(trans); @@ -3336,16 +3338,23 @@ out: mutex_unlock(&fs_info->qgroup_rescan_lock); /* - * only update status, since the previous part has already updated the - * qgroup info. + * Only update status, since the previous part has already updated the + * qgroup info, and only if we did any actual work. This also prevents + * race with a concurrent quota disable, which has already set + * fs_info->quota_root to NULL and cleared BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at + * btrfs_quota_disable(). */ - trans = btrfs_start_transaction(fs_info->quota_root, 1); - if (IS_ERR(trans)) { - err = PTR_ERR(trans); + if (did_leaf_rescans) { + trans = btrfs_start_transaction(fs_info->quota_root, 1); + if (IS_ERR(trans)) { + err = PTR_ERR(trans); + trans = NULL; + btrfs_err(fs_info, + "fail to start transaction for status update: %d", + err); + } + } else { trans = NULL; - btrfs_err(fs_info, - "fail to start transaction for status update: %d", - err); } mutex_lock(&fs_info->qgroup_rescan_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fdmanana@xxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/btrfs-fix-race-between-quota-rescan-and-disable-leading-to-null-pointer-deref.patch