The quilt patch titled Subject: ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ocfs2-remove-entry-once-instead-of-null-ptr-dereference-in-ocfs2_xa_remove.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Kanner <andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove() Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 20:38:45 +0100 Syzkaller is able to provoke null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove(): [ 57.319872] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_remove:2028 ERROR: status = -12 [ 57.320420] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate:1999 ERROR: Partial truncate while removing xattr overlay.upper. Leaking 1 clusters and removing the entry [ 57.321727] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004 [...] [ 57.325727] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0 [...] [ 57.331328] Call Trace: [ 57.331477] <TASK> [...] [ 57.333511] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x3e5/0x740 [ 57.333778] ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170 [ 57.334016] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30 [ 57.334263] ? __pfx_ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x10/0x10 [ 57.334596] ? ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0 [ 57.334913] ocfs2_xa_remove_entry+0x23/0xc0 [ 57.335164] ocfs2_xa_set+0x704/0xcf0 [ 57.335381] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x40 [ 57.335620] ? ocfs2_inode_cache_unlock+0x16/0x20 [ 57.335915] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1e/0x70 [ 57.336153] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500 [ 57.336410] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80 [ 57.336656] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x20/0x40 [ 57.336906] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500 [ 57.337162] ocfs2_xattr_block_set+0xa6/0x1e0 [ 57.337424] __ocfs2_xattr_set_handle+0x1fd/0x5d0 [ 57.337706] ? ocfs2_start_trans+0x13d/0x290 [ 57.337971] ocfs2_xattr_set+0xb13/0xfb0 [ 57.338207] ? dput+0x46/0x1c0 [ 57.338393] ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30 [ 57.338665] ? ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30 [ 57.338948] __vfs_removexattr+0x92/0xc0 [ 57.339182] __vfs_removexattr_locked+0xd5/0x190 [ 57.339456] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80 [ 57.339705] vfs_removexattr+0x5f/0x100 [...] Reproducer uses faultinject facility to fail ocfs2_xa_remove() -> ocfs2_xa_value_truncate() with -ENOMEM. In this case the comment mentions that we can return 0 if ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate() is going to wipe the entry anyway. But the following 'rc' check is wrong and execution flow do 'ocfs2_xa_remove_entry(loc);' twice: * 1st: in ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate(); * 2nd: returning back to ocfs2_xa_remove() instead of going to 'out'. Fix this by skipping the 2nd removal of the same entry and making syzkaller repro happy. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241103193845.2940988-1-andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 399ff3a748cf ("ocfs2: Handle errors while setting external xattr values.") Signed-off-by: Andrew Kanner <andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+386ce9e60fa1b18aac5b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/671e13ab.050a0220.2b8c0f.01d0.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx/T/ Tested-by: syzbot+386ce9e60fa1b18aac5b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c~ocfs2-remove-entry-once-instead-of-null-ptr-dereference-in-ocfs2_xa_remove +++ a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c @@ -2036,8 +2036,7 @@ static int ocfs2_xa_remove(struct ocfs2_ rc = 0; ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate(loc, "removing", orig_clusters); - if (rc) - goto out; + goto out; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx are