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Message-ID: <fe86da76-555d-424a-828f-ea99b05b363f@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:58:48 +0800
From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Julian Sun <sunjunchao2870@...il.com>, ocfs2-devel@...ts.linux.dev
Cc: lbec@...lplan.org, mark@...heh.com,
syzbot+05b9b39d8bdfe1a0861f@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ocfs2: fix null-ptr-deref when journal load failed.
On 8/30/24 6:11 PM, Julian Sun wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 17:40 +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/23/24 4:31 PM, Julian Sun wrote:
>>> During the mounting process, if journal_reset() fails
>>> because of too short journal, then lead to
>>> jbd2_journal_load() fails with NULL j_sb_buffer.
>>> Subsequently, ocfs2_journal_shutdown() calls
>>> jbd2_journal_flush()->jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()->
>>> __jbd2_update_log_tail()->jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail()
>>> ->lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer), resulting in a
>>> null-pointer dereference error.
>>>
>>> To resolve this issue, a new state OCFS2_JOURNAL_INITED
>>> has been introduced to replace the previous functionality
>>> of OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED, the original OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED
>>> is only set when ocfs2_journal_load() is successful.
>>> The jbd2_journal_flush() function is allowed to be called
>>> only when this flag is set. The logic here is that if the
>>> journal has even not been successfully loaded, there is
>>> no need to flush the journal.
>>>
>>> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=05b9b39d8bdfe1a0861f
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+05b9b39d8bdfe1a0861f@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>> Signed-off-by: Julian Sun <sunjunchao2870@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>> fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 9 ++++++---
>>> fs/ocfs2/journal.h | 1 +
>>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>> index 530fba34f6d3..da0ffcc5de0a 100644
>>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>> @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ int ocfs2_journal_init(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
>>> int *dirty)
>>>
>>> ocfs2_set_journal_params(osb);
>>>
>>> - journal->j_state = OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED;
>>> + journal->j_state = OCFS2_JOURNAL_INITED;
>>>
>>> status = 0;
>>> done:
>>> @@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ void ocfs2_journal_shutdown(struct
>>> ocfs2_super *osb)
>>> int status = 0;
>>> struct inode *inode = NULL;
>>> int num_running_trans = 0;
>>> + enum ocfs2_journal_state state;
>>>
>>> BUG_ON(!osb);
>>>
>>> @@ -1047,8 +1048,9 @@ void ocfs2_journal_shutdown(struct
>>> ocfs2_super *osb)
>>> goto done;
>>>
>>> inode = journal->j_inode;
>>> + state = journal->j_state;
>>>
>>> - if (journal->j_state != OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED)
>>> + if (state != OCFS2_JOURNAL_INITED && state !=
>>> OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED)
>>> goto done;
>>>
>>> /* need to inc inode use count - jbd2_journal_destroy will
>>> iput. */
>>> @@ -1076,7 +1078,7 @@ void ocfs2_journal_shutdown(struct
>>> ocfs2_super *osb)
>>>
>>> BUG_ON(atomic_read(&(osb->journal->j_num_trans)) != 0);
>>>
>>> - if (ocfs2_mount_local(osb)) {
>>> + if (ocfs2_mount_local(osb) && state ==
>>> OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED) {
>>
>> The only intent of the new introduced state is to identify if journal
>> is
>> truly loaded or not.
>> So it seems that the simplest way to fix this is just check
>> JBD2_LOADED
>> here.
>>
>> if (ocfs2_mount_local(osb) &&
>> (journal->j_journal->j_flags & JBD2_LOADED)) {
>> ...
>> }
> Hi, Joseph, thanks for your review and comments.
>
> Yeah! It's absolutely the simplest and cleanest way to fix this issue.
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> BTW, could you please also replace 'osb->journal->j_num_trans' to
>> 'journal->j_num_trans'?
> Sure.
>>
>>> jbd2_journal_lock_updates(journal->j_journal);
>>> status = jbd2_journal_flush(journal->j_journal, 0);
>>> jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(journal->j_journal);
>>> @@ -1174,6 +1176,7 @@ int ocfs2_journal_load(struct ocfs2_journal
>>> *journal, int local, int replayed)
>>> }
>>> } else
>>> osb->commit_task = NULL;
>>> + journal->j_state = OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED;
>>
>> It seems that this has to be moved just after jbd2_journal_load().
>> Anyway, I don't think we have to introduce a new state. See above.
>>
> Agreed. And now OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED is set when ocfs2_journal_init()
> succeed, it may led to some misunderstanding: the journal was not
> really loaded when OCFS2_JOURNAL_LOADED was set. I would like to rename
> it to OCFS2_JOURNAL_INITED in another patch to make it clearer.
Umm... You can treat it as ocfs2 journal state only, not jbd2.
Also jbd2 doesn't have 'initialized' state either.
So I don't think we have to do this change in the fix.
Joseph
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