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ext4: fix race when reusing xattr blocks
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:54:24 +0000 (12:54 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:42:32 +0000 (14:42 +0200)
commitc6fac5cf5a5098732623bcd00a8a3eb9f5465144
tree3d36d1695b92076b8e7c277c2c470f705c018d2f
parent66d304f0598f3b863f52505662445cfb7c644ee8
ext4: fix race when reusing xattr blocks

[ Upstream commit 65f8b80053a1b2fd602daa6814e62d6fa90e5e9b ]

When ext4_xattr_block_set() decides to remove xattr block the following
race can happen:

CPU1                                    CPU2
ext4_xattr_block_set()                  ext4_xattr_release_block()
  new_bh = ext4_xattr_block_cache_find()

                                          lock_buffer(bh);
                                          ref = le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount);
                                          if (ref == 1) {
                                            ...
                                            mb_cache_entry_delete();
                                            unlock_buffer(bh);
                                            ext4_free_blocks();
                                              ...
                                              ext4_forget(..., bh, ...);
                                                jbd2_journal_revoke(..., bh);

  ext4_journal_get_write_access(..., new_bh, ...)
    do_get_write_access()
      jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke(..., new_bh);

Later the code in ext4_xattr_block_set() finds out the block got freed
and cancels reusal of the block but the revoke stays canceled and so in
case of block reuse and journal replay the filesystem can get corrupted.
If the race works out slightly differently, we can also hit assertions
in the jbd2 code.

Fix the problem by making sure that once matching mbcache entry is
found, code dropping the last xattr block reference (or trying to modify
xattr block in place) waits until the mbcache entry reference is
dropped. This way code trying to reuse xattr block is protected from
someone trying to drop the last reference to xattr block.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 82939d7999df ("ext4: convert to mbcache2")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220712105436.32204-5-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/ext4/xattr.c