From 1d0c3924a92e69bfa91163bda83c12a994b4d106 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 16:40:37 -0500 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3