linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix an use-after-free issue about data=journal writeback mode

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Date:   Mon, 27 Dec 2021 10:16:24 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, jack@...e.cz,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix an use-after-free issue about data=journal writeback mode

On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 17:09:37 +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> Our syzkaller report an use-after-free issue that accessing the freed
> buffer_head on the writeback page in __ext4_journalled_writepage(). The
> problem is that if there was a truncate racing with the data=journalled
> writeback procedure, the writeback length could become zero and
> bget_one() refuse to get buffer_head's refcount, then the truncate
> procedure release buffer once we drop page lock, finally, the last
> ext4_walk_page_buffers() trigger the use-after-free problem.
> 
> [...]

Nice catch.   Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: fix an use-after-free issue about data=journal writeback mode
      commit: 856dd2096e2a01f6eb2c9d60f6e0cd587aa273a8

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>