linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 042/255] ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write

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Message-Id: <20221024113003.831687683@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:29:12 +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, stable@...nel.org,
        Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 042/255] ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info

From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>

commit f9c1f248607d5546075d3f731e7607d5571f2b60 upstream.

I caught a null-ptr-deref bug as follows:
==================================================================
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
CPU: 1 PID: 1589 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-02219-dirty #339
RIP: 0010:ext4_write_info+0x53/0x1b0
[...]
Call Trace:
 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x341/0x9a0
 ext4_sync_fs+0x19e/0x800
 __sync_filesystem+0x83/0x100
 sync_filesystem+0x89/0xf0
 generic_shutdown_super+0x79/0x3e0
 kill_block_super+0xa1/0x110
 deactivate_locked_super+0xac/0x130
 deactivate_super+0xb6/0xd0
 cleanup_mnt+0x289/0x400
 __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20
 task_work_run+0x11c/0x1c0
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x203/0x210
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5b/0x3a0
 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
 ==================================================================

Above issue may happen as follows:
-------------------------------------
exit_to_user_mode_prepare
 task_work_run
  __cleanup_mnt
   cleanup_mnt
    deactivate_super
     deactivate_locked_super
      kill_block_super
       generic_shutdown_super
        shrink_dcache_for_umount
         dentry = sb->s_root
         sb->s_root = NULL              <--- Here set NULL
        sync_filesystem
         __sync_filesystem
          sb->s_op->sync_fs > ext4_sync_fs
           dquot_writeback_dquots
            sb->dq_op->write_info > ext4_write_info
             ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2)
              d_inode(sb->s_root)
               s_root->d_inode          <--- Null pointer dereference

To solve this problem, we use ext4_journal_start_sb directly
to avoid s_root being used.

Cc: stable@...nel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220805123947.565152-1-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5836,7 +5836,7 @@ static int ext4_write_info(struct super_
 	handle_t *handle;
 
 	/* Data block + inode block */
-	handle = ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2);
+	handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2);
 	if (IS_ERR(handle))
 		return PTR_ERR(handle);
 	ret = dquot_commit_info(sb, type);