This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: allocate btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args on stack 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-allocate-btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args-on-stack.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 c853a5783ebe123847886d432354931874367292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:17:30 -0500 Subject: btrfs: allocate btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args on stack From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> commit c853a5783ebe123847886d432354931874367292 upstream. Instead of using kmalloc() to allocate btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args, allocate btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args on stack, the size is reasonably small and ioctls are called in process context. sizeof(btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args) = 48 Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> [ This patch is needed to fix a memory leak of "range" that was introduced when commit 173431b274a9 ("btrfs: defrag: reject unknown flags of btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args") was backported to kernels lacking this patch. Now with these two patches applied in reverse order, range->flags needed to change back to range.flags. This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.] Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 25 ++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c @@ -3148,7 +3148,7 @@ static int btrfs_ioctl_defrag(struct fil { struct inode *inode = file_inode(file); struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root; - struct btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args *range; + struct btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args range = {0}; int ret; ret = mnt_want_write_file(file); @@ -3180,37 +3180,28 @@ static int btrfs_ioctl_defrag(struct fil goto out; } - range = kzalloc(sizeof(*range), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!range) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } - if (argp) { - if (copy_from_user(range, argp, - sizeof(*range))) { + if (copy_from_user(&range, argp, sizeof(range))) { ret = -EFAULT; - kfree(range); goto out; } - if (range->flags & ~BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_FLAGS_SUPP) { + if (range.flags & ~BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_FLAGS_SUPP) { ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto out; } /* compression requires us to start the IO */ - if ((range->flags & BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_COMPRESS)) { - range->flags |= BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_START_IO; - range->extent_thresh = (u32)-1; + if ((range.flags & BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_COMPRESS)) { + range.flags |= BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_START_IO; + range.extent_thresh = (u32)-1; } } else { /* the rest are all set to zero by kzalloc */ - range->len = (u64)-1; + range.len = (u64)-1; } ret = btrfs_defrag_file(file_inode(file), file, - range, BTRFS_OLDEST_GENERATION, 0); + &range, BTRFS_OLDEST_GENERATION, 0); if (ret > 0) ret = 0; - kfree(range); break; default: ret = -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/btrfs-allocate-btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args-on-stack.patch