This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: don't expose internal symlink metadata buffers to the vfs to the 5.15-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: xfs-don-t-expose-internal-symlink-metadata-buffers-to-the-vfs.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7b7820b83f230036fc48c3e7fb280c48c58adebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:07:41 -0800 Subject: xfs: don't expose internal symlink metadata buffers to the vfs From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7b7820b83f230036fc48c3e7fb280c48c58adebf upstream. Ian Kent reported that for inline symlinks, it's possible for vfs_readlink to hang on to the target buffer returned by _vn_get_link_inline long after it's been freed by xfs inode reclaim. This is a layering violation -- we should never expose XFS internals to the VFS. When the symlink has a remote target, we allocate a separate buffer, copy the internal information, and let the VFS manage the new buffer's lifetime. Let's adapt the inline code paths to do this too. It's less efficient, but fixes the layering violation and avoids the need to adapt the if_data lifetime to rcu rules. Clearly I don't care about readlink benchmarks. As a side note, this fixes the minor locking violation where we can access the inode data fork without taking any locks; proper locking (and eliminating the possibility of having to switch inode_operations on a live inode) is essential to online repair coordinating repairs correctly. Reported-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 34 +--------------------------------- fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -511,27 +511,6 @@ xfs_vn_get_link( return ERR_PTR(error); } -STATIC const char * -xfs_vn_get_link_inline( - struct dentry *dentry, - struct inode *inode, - struct delayed_call *done) -{ - struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode); - char *link; - - ASSERT(ip->i_df.if_format == XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL); - - /* - * The VFS crashes on a NULL pointer, so return -EFSCORRUPTED if - * if_data is junk. - */ - link = ip->i_df.if_u1.if_data; - if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(ip->i_mount, !link)) - return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED); - return link; -} - static uint32_t xfs_stat_blksize( struct xfs_inode *ip) @@ -1200,14 +1179,6 @@ static const struct inode_operations xfs .update_time = xfs_vn_update_time, }; -static const struct inode_operations xfs_inline_symlink_inode_operations = { - .get_link = xfs_vn_get_link_inline, - .getattr = xfs_vn_getattr, - .setattr = xfs_vn_setattr, - .listxattr = xfs_vn_listxattr, - .update_time = xfs_vn_update_time, -}; - /* Figure out if this file actually supports DAX. */ static bool xfs_inode_supports_dax( @@ -1358,10 +1329,7 @@ xfs_setup_iops( inode->i_fop = &xfs_dir_file_operations; break; case S_IFLNK: - if (ip->i_df.if_format == XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL) - inode->i_op = &xfs_inline_symlink_inode_operations; - else - inode->i_op = &xfs_symlink_inode_operations; + inode->i_op = &xfs_symlink_inode_operations; break; default: inode->i_op = &xfs_inode_operations; --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include "xfs_trace.h" #include "xfs_trans.h" #include "xfs_ialloc.h" +#include "xfs_error.h" /* ----- Kernel only functions below ----- */ int @@ -96,17 +97,15 @@ xfs_readlink_bmap_ilocked( int xfs_readlink( - struct xfs_inode *ip, - char *link) + struct xfs_inode *ip, + char *link) { - struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount; - xfs_fsize_t pathlen; - int error = 0; + struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount; + xfs_fsize_t pathlen; + int error = -EFSCORRUPTED; trace_xfs_readlink(ip); - ASSERT(ip->i_df.if_format != XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL); - if (xfs_is_shutdown(mp)) return -EIO; @@ -121,12 +120,22 @@ xfs_readlink( __func__, (unsigned long long) ip->i_ino, (long long) pathlen); ASSERT(0); - error = -EFSCORRUPTED; goto out; } - - error = xfs_readlink_bmap_ilocked(ip, link); + if (ip->i_df.if_format == XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL) { + /* + * The VFS crashes on a NULL pointer, so return -EFSCORRUPTED + * if if_data is junk. + */ + if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(ip->i_mount, !ip->i_df.if_u1.if_data)) + goto out; + + memcpy(link, ip->i_df.if_u1.if_data, pathlen + 1); + error = 0; + } else { + error = xfs_readlink_bmap_ilocked(ip, link); + } out: xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from djwong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/xfs-don-t-expose-internal-symlink-metadata-buffers-to-the-vfs.patch