Thread (303 messages) 303 messages, 11 authors, 2023-01-12
STALE1279d REVIEWED: 9 (9M)

[PATCH 5.15 149/290] ext4: check and assert if marking an no_delete evicting inode dirty

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2023-01-10 18:34:17
Also in: linux-patches

From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>

commit 318cdc822c63b6e2befcfdc2088378ae6fa18def upstream.

In ext4_evict_inode(), if we evicting an inode in the 'no_delete' path,
it cannot be raced by another mark_inode_dirty(). If it happens,
someone else may accidentally dirty it without holding inode refcount
and probably cause use-after-free issues in the writeback procedure.
It's indiscoverable and hard to debug, so add an WARN_ON_ONCE() to
check and detect this issue in advance.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629112647.4141034-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -338,6 +338,12 @@ stop_handle:
 	ext4_xattr_inode_array_free(ea_inode_array);
 	return;
 no_delete:
+	/*
+	 * Check out some where else accidentally dirty the evicting inode,
+	 * which may probably cause inode use-after-free issues later.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list));
+
 	if (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_fc_list))
 		ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(inode->i_sb, EXT4_FC_REASON_NOMEM, NULL);
 	ext4_clear_inode(inode);	/* We must guarantee clearing of inode... */

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