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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2020-02-15 16:40:37 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2020-02-21 00:37:09 -0500
commit1d0c3924a92e69bfa91163bda83c12a994b4d106 (patch)
treec8bdc41a140f8ef4f01d6b1b7f4bd7c86b3edecc /fs/ext4/balloc.c
parent9424ef56e13a1f14c57ea161eed3ecfdc7b2770e (diff)
downloadlinux-1d0c3924a92e69bfa91163bda83c12a994b4d106.tar.gz
ext4: fix potential race between online resizing and write operations
During an online resize an array of pointers to buffer heads gets
replaced so it can get enlarged.  If there is a racing block
allocation or deallocation which uses the old array, and the old array
has gotten reused this can lead to a GPF or some other random kernel
memory getting modified.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206443
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200221053458.730016-2-tytso@mit.edu
Reported-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/balloc.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 5f993a411251..8fd0b3cdab4c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ struct ext4_group_desc * ext4_get_group_desc(struct super_block *sb,
 	ext4_group_t ngroups = ext4_get_groups_count(sb);
 	struct ext4_group_desc *desc;
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
+	struct buffer_head *bh_p;
 
 	if (block_group >= ngroups) {
 		ext4_error(sb, "block_group >= groups_count - block_group = %u,"
@@ -280,7 +281,14 @@ struct ext4_group_desc * ext4_get_group_desc(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	group_desc = block_group >> EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb);
 	offset = block_group & (EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) - 1);
-	if (!sbi->s_group_desc[group_desc]) {
+	bh_p = sbi_array_rcu_deref(sbi, s_group_desc, group_desc);
+	/*
+	 * sbi_array_rcu_deref returns with rcu unlocked, this is ok since
+	 * the pointer being dereferenced won't be dereferenced again. By
+	 * looking at the usage in add_new_gdb() the value isn't modified,
+	 * just the pointer, and so it remains valid.
+	 */
+	if (!bh_p) {
 		ext4_error(sb, "Group descriptor not loaded - "
 			   "block_group = %u, group_desc = %u, desc = %u",
 			   block_group, group_desc, offset);
@@ -288,10 +296,10 @@ struct ext4_group_desc * ext4_get_group_desc(struct super_block *sb,
 	}
 
 	desc = (struct ext4_group_desc *)(
-		(__u8 *)sbi->s_group_desc[group_desc]->b_data +
+		(__u8 *)bh_p->b_data +
 		offset * EXT4_DESC_SIZE(sb));
 	if (bh)
-		*bh = sbi->s_group_desc[group_desc];
+		*bh = bh_p;
 	return desc;
 }