linux-kernel - oopsably broken case-insensitive support in ext4 and f2fs (Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8)

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:07:21 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: oopsably broken case-insensitive support in ext4 and f2fs (Re: vfat:
 Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8)

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 07:45:58AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 07:30:40AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > <checks ext4>
> > Yup, that bug is there as well, all right.  Look:
> > #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
> > static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
> >                           const char *str, const struct qstr *name)
> > {
> >         struct qstr qstr = {.name = str, .len = len };
> >         struct inode *inode = dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
> > 
> >         if (!IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) || !EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_encoding) {
> > 
> > Guess what happens if your (lockless) call of ->d_compare() runs
> > into the following sequence:
> > CPU1:	ext4_d_compare() fetches ->d_parent
> > CPU1:	takes a hardware interrupt
> > CPU2:	dentry gets evicted by memory pressure; so is its parent, since
> > it was the only thing that used to keep it pinned.  Eviction of the parent
> > calls dentry_unlink_inode() on the parent, which zeroes its ->d_inode.
> > CPU1:	comes back
> > CPU1:	fetches parent's ->d_inode and gets NULL
> > CPU1:	oopses on null pointer dereference.
> > 
> > It's not impossible to hit.  Note that e.g. vfat_cmpi() is not vulnerable
> > to that problem - ->d_sb is stable and both the superblock and ->nls_io
> > freeing is RCU-delayed.
> > 
> > I hadn't checked ->d_compare() instances for a while; somebody needs to
> > do that again, by the look of it.  The above definitely is broken;
> > no idea how many other instaces had grown such bugs...
> 
> f2fs one also has the same bug.  Anyway, I'm going down right now, will
> check the rest tomorrow morning...

We _probably_ can get away with just checking that inode for NULL and
buggering off if it is (->d_seq mismatch is guaranteed in that case),
but I suspect that we might need READ_ONCE() on both dereferences.
I hate memory barriers...