linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 028/101] add barriers to buffer_uptodate and set_buffer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20220823080035.659046535@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:03:01 +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, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 028/101] add barriers to buffer_uptodate and set_buffer_uptodate

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit d4252071b97d2027d246f6a82cbee4d52f618b47 upstream.

Let's have a look at this piece of code in __bread_slow:

	get_bh(bh);
	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync;
	submit_bh(REQ_OP_READ, 0, bh);
	wait_on_buffer(bh);
	if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
		return bh;

Neither wait_on_buffer nor buffer_uptodate contain any memory barrier.
Consequently, if someone calls sb_bread and then reads the buffer data,
the read of buffer data may be executed before wait_on_buffer(bh) on
architectures with weak memory ordering and it may return invalid data.

Fix this bug by adding a memory barrier to set_buffer_uptodate and an
acquire barrier to buffer_uptodate (in a similar way as
folio_test_uptodate and folio_mark_uptodate).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/buffer_head.h |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ static __always_inline int test_clear_bu
  * of the form "mark_buffer_foo()".  These are higher-level functions which
  * do something in addition to setting a b_state bit.
  */
-BUFFER_FNS(Uptodate, uptodate)
 BUFFER_FNS(Dirty, dirty)
 TAS_BUFFER_FNS(Dirty, dirty)
 BUFFER_FNS(Lock, locked)
@@ -131,6 +130,30 @@ BUFFER_FNS(Meta, meta)
 BUFFER_FNS(Prio, prio)
 BUFFER_FNS(Defer_Completion, defer_completion)
 
+static __always_inline void set_buffer_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	/*
+	 * make it consistent with folio_mark_uptodate
+	 * pairs with smp_load_acquire in buffer_uptodate
+	 */
+	smp_mb__before_atomic();
+	set_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
+}
+
+static __always_inline void clear_buffer_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	clear_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
+}
+
+static __always_inline int buffer_uptodate(const struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	/*
+	 * make it consistent with folio_test_uptodate
+	 * pairs with smp_mb__before_atomic in set_buffer_uptodate
+	 */
+	return (smp_load_acquire(&bh->b_state) & (1UL << BH_Uptodate)) != 0;
+}
+
 #define bh_offset(bh)		((unsigned long)(bh)->b_data & ~PAGE_MASK)
 
 /* If we *know* page->private refers to buffer_heads */