linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults

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Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:20:24 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Cc:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults

Commit a48b73eca4ce ("btrfs: fix potential deadlock in the search
ioctl") addressed a lockdep warning by pre-faulting the user pages and
attempting the copy_to_user_nofault() in an infinite loop. On
architectures like arm64 with MTE, an access may fault within a page at
a location different from what fault_in_writeable() probed. Since the
sk_offset is rewound to the previous struct btrfs_ioctl_search_header
boundary, there is no guaranteed forward progress and search_ioctl() may
live-lock.

Use fault_in_exact_writeable() instead which probes the entire user
buffer for faults at sub-page granularity.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 92138ac2a4e2..23167c72fa47 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2223,7 +2223,8 @@ static noinline int search_ioctl(struct inode *inode,

 	while (1) {
 		ret = -EFAULT;
-		if (fault_in_writeable(ubuf + sk_offset, *buf_size - sk_offset))
+		if (fault_in_exact_writeable(ubuf + sk_offset,
+					     *buf_size - sk_offset))
 			break;

 		ret = btrfs_search_forward(root, &key, path, sk->min_transid);