linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 026/152] btrfs: inode: fix NULL pointer dereference if inode doesnt need compression

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Message-Id: <20200820091555.001479760@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:19:53 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Luciano Chavez <chavez@...ibm.com>,
        Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 026/152] btrfs: inode: fix NULL pointer dereference if inode doesnt need compression

From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>

commit 1e6e238c3002ea3611465ce5f32777ddd6a40126 upstream.

[BUG]
There is a bug report of NULL pointer dereference caused in
compress_file_extent():

  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
  Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_delalloc_helper [btrfs]
  NIP [c008000006dd4d34] compress_file_range.constprop.41+0x75c/0x8a0 [btrfs]
  LR [c008000006dd4d1c] compress_file_range.constprop.41+0x744/0x8a0 [btrfs]
  Call Trace:
  [c000000c69093b00] [c008000006dd4d1c] compress_file_range.constprop.41+0x744/0x8a0 [btrfs] (unreliable)
  [c000000c69093bd0] [c008000006dd4ebc] async_cow_start+0x44/0xa0 [btrfs]
  [c000000c69093c10] [c008000006e14824] normal_work_helper+0xdc/0x598 [btrfs]
  [c000000c69093c80] [c0000000001608c0] process_one_work+0x2c0/0x5b0
  [c000000c69093d10] [c000000000160c38] worker_thread+0x88/0x660
  [c000000c69093db0] [c00000000016b55c] kthread+0x1ac/0x1c0
  [c000000c69093e20] [c00000000000b660] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c
  ---[ end trace f16954aa20d822f6 ]---

[CAUSE]
For the following execution route of compress_file_range(), it's
possible to hit NULL pointer dereference:

 compress_file_extent()
 |- pages = NULL;
 |- start = async_chunk->start = 0;
 |- end = async_chunk = 4095;
 |- nr_pages = 1;
 |- inode_need_compress() == false; <<< Possible, see later explanation
 |  Now, we have nr_pages = 1, pages = NULL
 |- cont:
 |- 		ret = cow_file_range_inline();
 |- 		if (ret <= 0) {
 |-		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 |-			WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);	<<< Crash

To enter above call execution branch, we need the following race:

    Thread 1 (chattr)     |            Thread 2 (writeback)
--------------------------+------------------------------
                          | btrfs_run_delalloc_range
                          | |- inode_need_compress = true
                          | |- cow_file_range_async()
btrfs_ioctl_set_flag()    |
|- binode_flags |=        |
   BTRFS_INODE_NOCOMPRESS |
                          | compress_file_range()
                          | |- inode_need_compress = false
                          | |- nr_page = 1 while pages = NULL
                          | |  Then hit the crash

[FIX]
This patch will fix it by checking @pages before doing accessing it.
This patch is only designed as a hot fix and easy to backport.

More elegant fix may make btrfs only check inode_need_compress() once to
avoid such race, but that would be another story.

Reported-by: Luciano Chavez <chavez@...ibm.com>
Fixes: 4d3a800ebb12 ("btrfs: merge nr_pages input and output parameter in compress_pages")
CC: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.14.x: cecc8d9038d16: btrfs: Move free_pages_out label in inline extent handling branch in compress_file_range
CC: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/btrfs/inode.c |   16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -641,12 +641,18 @@ cont:
 						     page_error_op |
 						     PAGE_END_WRITEBACK);
 
-			for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
-				WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);
-				put_page(pages[i]);
+			/*
+			 * Ensure we only free the compressed pages if we have
+			 * them allocated, as we can still reach here with
+			 * inode_need_compress() == false.
+			 */
+			if (pages) {
+				for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+					WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);
+					put_page(pages[i]);
+				}
+				kfree(pages);
 			}
-			kfree(pages);
-
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}