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From: syzbot  <syzbot+d59332e2db681cf18f0318a06e994ebbb529a8db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, lee.jones@linaro.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sashal@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 1/2] ext4: don't BUG if someone dirty pages without asking ext4 first
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:43:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000000000000edd59205db4c87cd@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220328194343.1586624-1-sashal@kernel.org>

> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>
> [ Upstream commit cc5095747edfb054ca2068d01af20be3fcc3634f ]
>
> [un]pin_user_pages_remote is dirtying pages without properly warning
> the file system in advance.  A related race was noted by Jan Kara in
> 2018[1]; however, more recently instead of it being a very hard-to-hit
> race, it could be reliably triggered by process_vm_writev(2) which was
> discovered by Syzbot[2].
>
> This is technically a bug in mm/gup.c, but arguably ext4 is fragile in
> that if some other kernel subsystem dirty pages without properly
> notifying the file system using page_mkwrite(), ext4 will BUG, while
> other file systems will not BUG (although data will still be lost).
>
> So instead of crashing with a BUG, issue a warning (since there may be
> potential data loss) and just mark the page as clean to avoid
> unprivileged denial of service attacks until the problem can be
> properly fixed.  More discussion and background can be found in the
> thread starting at [2].
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@google.com
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+d59332e2db681cf18f0318a06e994ebbb529a8db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Reported-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YiDS9wVfq4mM2jGK@mit.edu
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 9c07c8674b21..4d3eefff3c84 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -2147,6 +2147,15 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *page,
>  	else
>  		len = PAGE_SIZE;
>  
> +	/* Should never happen but for bugs in other kernel subsystems */
> +	if (!page_has_buffers(page)) {
> +		ext4_warning_inode(inode,
> +		   "page %lu does not have buffers attached", page->index);
> +		ClearPageDirty(page);
> +		unlock_page(page);
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	page_bufs = page_buffers(page);
>  	/*
>  	 * We cannot do block allocation or other extent handling in this
> @@ -2706,6 +2715,22 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
>  			wait_on_page_writeback(page);
>  			BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
>  
> +			/*
> +			 * Should never happen but for buggy code in
> +			 * other subsystems that call
> +			 * set_page_dirty() without properly warning
> +			 * the file system first.  See [1] for more
> +			 * information.
> +			 *
> +			 * [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz
> +			 */
> +			if (!page_has_buffers(page)) {
> +				ext4_warning_inode(mpd->inode, "page %lu does not have buffers attached", page->index);
> +				ClearPageDirty(page);
> +				unlock_page(page);
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +
>  			if (mpd->map.m_len == 0)
>  				mpd->first_page = page->index;
>  			mpd->next_page = page->index + 1;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>

I see the command but can't find the corresponding bug.
The email is sent to  syzbot+HASH@syzkaller.appspotmail.com address
but the HASH does not correspond to any known bug.
Please double check the address.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-28 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-28 19:43 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 1/2] ext4: don't BUG if someone dirty pages without asking ext4 first Sasha Levin
2022-03-28 19:43 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 2/2] ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size Sasha Levin
2022-03-28 19:43 ` syzbot [this message]

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