linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:17:06 -0700
From:   Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+bd13648a53ed6933ca49@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO
 write

On 7/27/22 08:57, Jan Kara wrote:
> When inode is created and written to using direct IO, there is nothing
> to clear the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag. Thus when inode gets
> truncated later to say 1 byte and written using normal write, we will
> try to store the data as inline data. This confuses the code later
> because the inode now has both normal block and inline data allocated
> and the confusion manifests for example as:
> 
> kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2721!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> CPU: 0 PID: 359 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8-00001-g31ba1e3b8305-dirty #15
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014
> RIP: 0010:ext4_writepages+0x363d/0x3660
> RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ccf260 EFLAGS: 00010293
> RAX: ffffffff81e1abcd RBX: 0000008000000000 RCX: ffff88810842a180
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000008000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: ffffc90000ccf650 R08: ffffffff81e17d58 R09: ffffed10222c680b
> R10: dfffe910222c680c R11: 1ffff110222c680a R12: ffff888111634128
> R13: ffffc90000ccf880 R14: 0000008410000000 R15: 0000000000000001
> FS:  00007f72635d2640(0000) GS:ffff88811b000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000565243379180 CR3: 000000010aa74000 CR4: 0000000000150eb0
> Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   do_writepages+0x397/0x640
>   filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x151/0x1b0
>   file_write_and_wait_range+0x1c9/0x2b0
>   ext4_sync_file+0x19e/0xa00
>   vfs_fsync_range+0x17b/0x190
>   ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x488/0x530
>   ext4_file_write_iter+0x449/0x1b90
>   vfs_write+0xbcd/0xf40
>   ksys_write+0x198/0x2c0
>   __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90
>   do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>   </TASK>
> 
> Fix the problem by clearing EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA when we are doing
> direct IO write to a file.
> 
> Reported-by: Tadeusz Struk<tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
> Reported-by:syzbot+bd13648a53ed6933ca49@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Link:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a1e89d09bbbcbd5c4cb45db230ee28c822953984
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara<jack@...e.cz>

That works fine for me. Thanks Honza.

Tested-by: Tadeusz Struk<tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>

It should also be applied to stable v5.15 and v5.10.
I will send a request once this lands in mainline.
-- 
Thanks,
Tadeusz