linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: fix error pointer dereference

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:27:34 +0800
From:   Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     tytso@....edu, jack@...e.cz
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix error pointer dereference

Don't pass error pointers to brelse().

commit 7159a986b420 ("ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences") has fixed
some cases, fix the remaining one case.

Once ext4_xattr_block_find()->ext4_sb_bread() failed, error pointer is
stored in @bs->bh, which will be passed to brelse() in the cleanup
routine of ext4_xattr_set_handle(). This will then cause a NULL panic
crash in __brelse().

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005b
RIP: 0010:__brelse+0x1b/0x50
Call Trace:
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x163/0x5d0
 ext4_xattr_set+0x95/0x110
 __vfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x80
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x68/0x1b0
 vfs_setxattr+0xa0/0xb0
 setxattr+0x12c/0x1a0
 path_setxattr+0x8d/0xc0
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x250
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

In this case, @bs->bh stores '-EIO' actually.

Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org # 2.6.19
---
 fs/ext4/xattr.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 21df43a..c0ebd0f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1800,8 +1800,10 @@ struct ext4_xattr_block_find {
 	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl) {
 		/* The inode already has an extended attribute block. */
 		bs->bh = ext4_sb_bread(sb, EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl, REQ_PRIO);
-		if (IS_ERR(bs->bh))
+		if (IS_ERR(bs->bh)) {
+			bs->bh = NULL;
 			return PTR_ERR(bs->bh);
+		}
 		ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "b_count=%d, refcount=%d",
 			atomic_read(&(bs->bh->b_count)),
 			le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bs->bh)->h_refcount));
-- 
1.8.3.1