Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: Fix race between inactivating and culling a cache object

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:57:39PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> There's a race between cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() and
> cachefiles_cull():
> 
>  (1) cachefiles_cull() can't delete a backing file until the cache object
>      is marked inactive, but as soon as that's the case it's fair game.
> 
>  (2) cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() marks the object as being inactive
>      and *only then* reads the i_blocks on the backing inode - but
>      cachefiles_cull() might've managed to delete it by this point.
> 
> Fix this by making sure cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() gets any data it
> needs from the backing inode before deactivating the object.
> 
> Without this, the following oops may occur:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098
> IP: [<ffffffffa06c5cc1>] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles]
> ...
> CPU: 11 PID: 527 Comm: kworker/u64:4 Tainted: G          I    ------------   3.10.0-470.el7.x86_64 #1
> Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Z600 Workstation/0B54h, BIOS 786G4 v03.19 03/11/2011
> Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
> task: ffff880035edaf10 ti: ffff8800b77c0000 task.ti: ffff8800b77c0000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa06c5cc1>] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles]
> RSP: 0018:ffff8800b77c3d70  EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800bf6cc400 RCX: 0000000000000034
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880090ffc710 RDI: ffff8800bf761ef8
> RBP: ffff8800b77c3d88 R08: 2000000000000000 R09: 0090ffc710000000
> R10: ff51005d2ff1c400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880090ffc600
> R13: ffff8800bf6cc520 R14: ffff8800bf6cc400 R15: ffff8800bf6cc498
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800bb8c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 00000000019ba000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Stack:
>  ffff880090ffc600 ffff8800bf6cc400 ffff8800867df140 ffff8800b77c3db0
>  ffffffffa06c48cb ffff880090ffc600 ffff880090ffc180 ffff880090ffc658
>  ffff8800b77c3df0 ffffffffa085d846 ffff8800a96b8150 ffff880090ffc600
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffffa06c48cb>] cachefiles_drop_object+0x6b/0xf0 [cachefiles]
>  [<ffffffffa085d846>] fscache_drop_object+0xd6/0x1e0 [fscache]
>  [<ffffffffa085d615>] fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
>  [<ffffffff810a605b>] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
>  [<ffffffff810a6e96>] worker_thread+0x126/0x410
>  [<ffffffff810a6d70>] ? rescuer_thread+0x460/0x460
>  [<ffffffff810ae64f>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
>  [<ffffffff810ae580>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
>  [<ffffffff81695418>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
>  [<ffffffff810ae580>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
> 
> The oopsing code shows:
> 
> 	callq  0xffffffff810af6a0 <wake_up_bit>
> 	mov    0xf8(%r12),%rax
> 	mov    0x30(%rax),%rax
> 	mov    0x98(%rax),%rax   <---- oops here
> 	lock add %rax,0x130(%rbx)
> 
> where this is:
> 
> 	d_backing_inode(object->dentry)->i_blocks
> 
> Fixes: a5b3a80b899bda0f456f1246c4c5a1191ea01519 (CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd)
> Reported-by: Jianhong Yin <jiyin@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
> cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Applied.