linux-kernel - Re: virtiofs: WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total

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Date:   Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:06:38 -0400
From:   Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
Cc:     Qian Cai <cai@...hat.com>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtio-fs@...hat.com
Subject: Re: virtiofs: WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total_sgs)

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:04:27AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 10:31:19AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:44:37PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-10-02 at 12:28 -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > > Running some fuzzing on virtiofs from a non-privileged user could trigger a
> > > > warning in virtio_fs_enqueue_req():
> > > > 
> > > > WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total_sgs);
> > > 
> > > Okay, I can reproduce this after running for a few hours:
> > > 
> > > out_sgs = 3, in_sgs = 2, total_sgs = 6
> > 
> > Thanks. I can also reproduce it simply by calling.
> > 
> > ioctl(fd, 0x5a004000, buf);
> > 
> > I think following WARN_ON() is not correct.
> > 
> > WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total_sgs)
> > 
> > toal_sgs should actually be max sgs. It looks at ap->num_pages and
> > counts one sg for each page. And it assumes that same number of
> > pages will be used both for input and output.
> > 
> > But there are no such guarantees. With above ioctl() call, I noticed
> > we are using 2 pages for input (out_sgs) and one page for output (in_sgs).
> > 
> > So out_sgs=4, in_sgs=3 and total_sgs=8 and warning triggers.
> > 
> > I think total sgs is actually max number of sgs and warning
> > should probably be.
> > 
> > WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs >  total_sgs)
> > 
> > Stefan, WDYT?
> 
> It should be possible to calculate total_sgs precisely (not a maximum).
> Treating it as a maximum could hide bugs.

I thought about calculating total_sgs as well. Then became little lazy.
I will redo the patch and then calculate total_sgs precisely.

> 
> Maybe sg_count_fuse_req() should count in_args/out_args[numargs -
> 1].size pages instead of adding ap->num_pages.

That should work, I guess. Will try.

Vivek
> 
> Do you have the details of struct fuse_req and struct fuse_args_pages
> fields for the ioctl in question?

> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan