linux-kernel - [PATCH v4] iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users

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Message-Id: <20200831182353.14593-1-cai@lca.pw>
Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:23:53 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     darrick.wong@...cle.com
Cc:     hch@...radead.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Subject: [PATCH v4] iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users

It is trivial to trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in iomap_dio_actor() by
unprivileged users which would taint the kernel, or worse - panic if
panic_on_warn or panic_on_taint is set. Hence, just convert it to
pr_warn_ratelimited() to let users know their workloads are racing.
Thank Dave Chinner for the initial analysis of the racing reproducers.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
---
v4: use %pD4.
v3: Keep the default case and update the message.
v2: Record the path, pid and command as well.

 fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
index c1aafb2ab990..9519113ebc35 100644
--- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ iomap_dio_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length,
 		return iomap_dio_bio_actor(inode, pos, length, dio, iomap);
 	case IOMAP_INLINE:
 		return iomap_dio_inline_actor(inode, pos, length, dio, iomap);
+	case IOMAP_DELALLOC:
+		/*
+		 * DIO is not serialised against mmap() access at all, and so
+		 * if the page_mkwrite occurs between the writeback and the
+		 * iomap_apply() call in the DIO path, then it will see the
+		 * DELALLOC block that the page-mkwrite allocated.
+		 */
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("Direct I/O collision with buffered writes! File: %pD4 Comm: %.20s\n",
+				    dio->iocb->ki_filp, current->comm);
+		return -EIO;
 	default:
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 		return -EIO;
-- 
2.18.4