From: Constantine Sapuntzakis costa@purestorage.com
commit acaa532687cdc3a03757defafece9c27aa667546 upstream.
The race condition could cause the persisted superblock checksum to not match the contents of the superblock, causing the superblock to be considered corrupt.
An example of the race follows. A first thread is interrupted in the middle of a checksum calculation. Then, another thread changes the superblock, calculates a new checksum, and sets it. Then, the first thread resumes and sets the checksum based on the older superblock.
To fix, serialize the superblock checksum calculation using the buffer header lock. While a spinlock is sufficient, the buffer header is already there and there is precedent for locking it (e.g. in ext4_commit_super).
Tested the patch by booting up a kernel with the patch, creating a filesystem and some files (including some orphans), and then unmounting and remounting the file system.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Constantine Sapuntzakis costa@purestorage.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Suggested-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914161014.22275-1-costa@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/ext4/super.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -200,7 +200,18 @@ void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct sup if (!ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb)) return;
+ /* + * Locking the superblock prevents the scenario + * where: + * 1) a first thread pauses during checksum calculation. + * 2) a second thread updates the superblock, recalculates + * the checksum, and updates s_checksum + * 3) the first thread resumes and finishes its checksum calculation + * and updates s_checksum with a potentially stale or torn value. + */ + lock_buffer(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh); es->s_checksum = ext4_superblock_csum(sb, es); + unlock_buffer(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh); }
void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)