The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Subject: nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 23:29:59 +0900

If a nilfs2 filesystem is downgraded to read-only due to metadata corruption on disk and is remounted read/write, or if emergency read-only remount is performed, detaching a log writer and synchronizing the filesystem can be done at the same time.

In these cases, use-after-free of the log writer (hereinafter nilfs->ns_writer) can happen as shown in the scenario below:

Task1 Task2 -------------------------------- ------------------------------ nilfs_construct_segment nilfs_segctor_sync init_wait init_waitqueue_entry add_wait_queue schedule nilfs_remount (R/W remount case) nilfs_attach_log_writer nilfs_detach_log_writer nilfs_segctor_destroy kfree finish_wait _raw_spin_lock_irqsave __raw_spin_lock_irqsave do_raw_spin_lock debug_spin_lock_before <-- use-after-free

While Task1 is sleeping, nilfs->ns_writer is freed by Task2. After Task1 waked up, Task1 accesses nilfs->ns_writer which is already freed. This scenario diagram is based on the Shigeru Yoshida's post [1].

This patch fixes the issue by not detaching nilfs->ns_writer on remount so that this UAF race doesn't happen. Along with this change, this patch also inserts a few necessary read-only checks with superblock instance where only the ns_writer pointer was used to check if the filesystem is read-only.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=79a4c002e960419ca173d55e863bd09e8112df8... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221103141759.1836312-1-syoshida@redhat.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221104142959.28296-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+f816fa82f8783f7a02bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Shigeru Yoshida syoshida@redhat.com Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 15 ++++++++------- fs/nilfs2/super.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c~nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount +++ a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ void nilfs_relax_pressure_in_lock(struct struct the_nilfs *nilfs = sb->s_fs_info; struct nilfs_sc_info *sci = nilfs->ns_writer;

- if (!sci || !sci->sc_flush_request) + if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci) || !sci->sc_flush_request) return;

set_bit(NILFS_SC_PRIOR_FLUSH, &sci->sc_flags); @@ -2242,7 +2242,7 @@ int nilfs_construct_segment(struct super struct nilfs_sc_info *sci = nilfs->ns_writer; struct nilfs_transaction_info *ti;

- if (!sci) + if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci)) return -EROFS;

/* A call inside transactions causes a deadlock. */ @@ -2280,7 +2280,7 @@ int nilfs_construct_dsync_segment(struct struct nilfs_transaction_info ti; int err = 0;

- if (!sci) + if (sb_rdonly(sb) || unlikely(!sci)) return -EROFS;

nilfs_transaction_lock(sb, &ti, 0); @@ -2776,11 +2776,12 @@ int nilfs_attach_log_writer(struct super

if (nilfs->ns_writer) { /* - * This happens if the filesystem was remounted - * read/write after nilfs_error degenerated it into a - * read-only mount. + * This happens if the filesystem is made read-only by + * __nilfs_error or nilfs_remount and then remounted + * read/write. In these cases, reuse the existing + * writer. */ - nilfs_detach_log_writer(sb); + return 0; }

nilfs->ns_writer = nilfs_segctor_new(sb, root); --- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c~nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount +++ a/fs/nilfs2/super.c @@ -1133,8 +1133,6 @@ static int nilfs_remount(struct super_bl if ((bool)(*flags & SB_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(sb)) goto out; if (*flags & SB_RDONLY) { - /* Shutting down log writer */ - nilfs_detach_log_writer(sb); sb->s_flags |= SB_RDONLY;

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com are

nilfs2-fix-deadlock-in-nilfs_count_free_blocks.patch nilfs2-fix-use-after-free-bug-of-ns_writer-on-remount.patch nilfs2-fix-shift-out-of-bounds-overflow-in-nilfs_sb2_bad_offset.patch nilfs2-fix-shift-out-of-bounds-due-to-too-large-exponent-of-block-size.patch