linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [afs?] WARNING: lock held when returning to user space in afs_proc_addr_prefs

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Message-ID: <363219.1736172411@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:06:51 +0000
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: syzbot <syzbot+76f33569875eb708e575@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, marc.dionne@...istor.com,
    syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [afs?] WARNING: lock held when returning to user space in afs_proc_addr_prefs_write

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

afs: Merge preference rule failure condition

syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1].  This is
because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held
inode lock is not released.

Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of
returning directly.

[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code
from afs_split_string()]

[1]
WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------
syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823:
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline]
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388

Reported-by: syzbot+76f33569875eb708e575@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=76f33569875eb708e575
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241226012616.2348907-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/
---
diff --git a/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c b/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
index a189ff8a5034..c0384201b8fe 100644
--- a/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
+++ b/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
@@ -413,8 +413,10 @@ int afs_proc_addr_prefs_write(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
 
 	do {
 		argc = afs_split_string(&buf, argv, ARRAY_SIZE(argv));
-		if (argc < 0)
-			return argc;
+		if (argc < 0) {
+			ret = argc;
+			goto done;
+		}
 		if (argc < 2)
 			goto inval;