linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-36001: netfs: Fix the pre-flush when appending to a file in writethrough mode

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Message-ID: <2024052023-CVE-2024-36001-e6a9@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 11:48:37 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-36001: netfs: Fix the pre-flush when appending to a file in writethrough mode

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Fix the pre-flush when appending to a file in writethrough mode

In netfs_perform_write(), when the file is marked NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
or O_*SYNC or RWF_*SYNC was specified, write-through caching is performed
on a buffered file.  When setting up for write-through, we flush any
conflicting writes in the region and wait for the write to complete,
failing if there's a write error to return.

The issue arises if we're writing at or above the EOF position because we
skip the flush and - more importantly - the wait.  This becomes a problem
if there's a partial folio at the end of the file that is being written out
and we want to make a write to it too.  Both the already-running write and
the write we start both want to clear the writeback mark, but whoever is
second causes a warning looking something like:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    R=00000012: folio 11 is not under writeback
    WARNING: CPU: 34 PID: 654 at fs/netfs/write_collect.c:105
    ...
    CPU: 34 PID: 654 Comm: kworker/u386:27 Tainted: G S ...
    ...
    Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_write_collection_worker
    ...
    RIP: 0010:netfs_writeback_lookup_folio

Fix this by making the flush-and-wait unconditional.  It will do nothing if
there are no folios in the pagecache and will return quickly if there are
no folios in the region specified.

Further, move the WBC attachment above the flush call as the flush is going
to attach a WBC and detach it again if it is not present - and since we
need one anyway we might as well share it.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-36001 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 41d8e7673a77 and fixed in 6.8.9 with commit 5eaf23b2e813
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 41d8e7673a77 and fixed in 6.9 with commit c97f59e276d4

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-36001
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/netfs/buffered_write.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eaf23b2e81349f6614f88396dc468fda89fc0b9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c97f59e276d4e93480f29a70accbd0d7273cf3f5