From: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.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@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220805123947.565152-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5601,7 +5601,7 @@ 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);