linux-kernel - [PATCH] ovl: fix null pointer when filesystem doesn't support direct IO

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Message-Id: <20210918121346.12084-1-huangjianan@oppo.com>
Date:   Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:13:46 +0800
From:   Huang Jianan <huangjianan@...o.com>
To:     linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, miklos@...redi.hu,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, xiang@...nel.org, chao@...nel.org
Cc:     huangjianan@...o.com, guoweichao@...o.com, yh@...o.com,
        zhangshiming@...o.com, guanyuwei@...o.com, jnhuang95@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: fix null pointer when filesystem doesn't support direct IO

From: Huang Jianan <huangjianan@...o.com>

At present, overlayfs provides overlayfs inode to users. Overlayfs
inode provides ovl_aops with noop_direct_IO to avoid open failure
with O_DIRECT. But some compressed filesystems, such as erofs and
squashfs, don't support direct_IO.

Users who use f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO to check O_DIRECT support,
will read file through this way. This will cause overlayfs to access
a non-existent direct_IO function and cause panic due to null pointer:

Kernel panic - not syncing: CFI failure (target: 0x0)
CPU: 6 PID: 247 Comm: loop0
Call Trace:
 panic+0x188/0x45c
 __cfi_slowpath+0x0/0x254
 __cfi_slowpath+0x200/0x254
 generic_file_read_iter+0x14c/0x150
 vfs_iocb_iter_read+0xac/0x164
 ovl_read_iter+0x13c/0x2fc
 lo_rw_aio+0x2bc/0x458
 loop_queue_work+0x4a4/0xbc0
 kthread_worker_fn+0xf8/0x1d0
 loop_kthread_worker_fn+0x24/0x38
 kthread+0x29c/0x310
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30

The filesystem may only support direct_IO for some file types. For
example, erofs supports direct_IO for uncompressed files. So fall
back to buffered io only when the file doesn't support direct_IO to
fix this problem.

Fixes: 5b910bd615ba ("ovl: fix GPF in swapfile_activate of file from overlayfs over xfs")
Signed-off-by: Huang Jianan <huangjianan@...o.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/file.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
index d081faa55e83..998c60770b81 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ static ssize_t ovl_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT) && (!real.file->f_mapping->a_ops ||
+		!real.file->f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO))
+		iocb->ki_flags &= ~IOCB_DIRECT;
+
 	old_cred = ovl_override_creds(file_inode(file)->i_sb);
 	if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
 		ret = vfs_iter_read(real.file, iter, &iocb->ki_pos,
-- 
2.25.1