From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:02:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824120224.504575-4-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824120224.504575-1-dhowells@redhat.com>
Currently, trace_cachefiles_coherency() is being passed a pointer to a
__be64 lain over the coherency data in struct cachefiles_xattr so that it
can display the first 8 bytes. However, the data is of variable length and
could even be 0 bytes. This could lead to a UAF or KASAN warning.
Fix this by making sure the buffer has room for at least 8 bytes and that
those 8 bytes are pre-cleared.
Further, those bytes are not 8-byte aligned, so fix the tracepoint to
extract the data as four 2-byte words (they are 2-byte aligned) and
reassemble the __be64. The compiler will convert this into a single 8-byte
load where the CPU supports it.
Fixes: 229105e5cfd9 ("cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260810144746.574036-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 16 ++++++++--------
include/trace/events/cachefiles.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
index f8ae78b3f7b6..92990cfdcca7 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/xattr.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
#include "internal.h"
#define CACHEFILES_COOKIE_TYPE_DATA 1
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
_enter("%x,#%d", object->debug_id, len);
- buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cachefiles_xattr) + len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cachefiles_xattr) + min(len, sizeof(__be64)), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
buf->content = object->content_info;
if (test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOCAL_WRITE, &object->cookie->flags))
buf->content = CACHEFILES_CONTENT_DIRTY;
+ put_unaligned_be64(0, (__be64 *)buf->data);
if (len > 0)
memcpy(buf->data, fscache_get_aux(object->cookie), len);
@@ -77,8 +79,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
trace_cachefiles_vfs_error(object, file_inode(file), ret,
cachefiles_trace_setxattr_error);
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
- buf->content,
+ buf->data, buf->content,
cachefiles_coherency_set_fail);
if (ret != -ENOMEM)
cachefiles_io_error_obj(
@@ -86,8 +87,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
"Failed to set xattr with error %d", ret);
} else {
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
- buf->content,
+ buf->data, buf->content,
cachefiles_coherency_set_ok);
}
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ int cachefiles_check_auxdata(struct cachefiles_object *object, struct file *file
int ret = -ESTALE;
tlen = sizeof(struct cachefiles_xattr) + len;
- buf = kmalloc(tlen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cachefiles_xattr) + min(len, sizeof(__be64)), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
+ put_unaligned_be64(0, (__be64 *)buf->data);
xlen = cachefiles_inject_read_error();
if (xlen == 0)
@@ -148,8 +149,7 @@ int cachefiles_check_auxdata(struct cachefiles_object *object, struct file *file
out:
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
- buf->content, why);
+ buf->data, buf->content, why);
kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/include/trace/events/cachefiles.h b/include/trace/events/cachefiles.h
index 9259bc71049e..927338f8fe85 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/cachefiles.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/cachefiles.h
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(cachefiles_rename,
TRACE_EVENT(cachefiles_coherency,
TP_PROTO(struct cachefiles_object *obj,
ino_t ino,
- u64 disk_aux,
+ const void *disk_aux,
enum cachefiles_content content,
enum cachefiles_coherency_trace why),
@@ -389,12 +389,27 @@ TRACE_EVENT(cachefiles_coherency,
),
TP_fast_assign(
+ union {
+ __be16 s[4];
+ __be64 ll;
+ } x;
+
__entry->obj = obj->debug_id;
__entry->why = why;
__entry->content = content;
__entry->ino = ino;
__entry->aux = be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)obj->cookie->inline_aux);
- __entry->disk_aux = disk_aux;
+
+ /* cachefiles_xattr::data is not 64-byte aligned. */
+ if (disk_aux) {
+ x.s[0] = ((__be16 *)disk_aux)[0];
+ x.s[1] = ((__be16 *)disk_aux)[1];
+ x.s[2] = ((__be16 *)disk_aux)[2];
+ x.s[3] = ((__be16 *)disk_aux)[3];
+ __entry->disk_aux = be64_to_cpu(x.ll);
+ } else {
+ __entry->disk_aux = 0;
+ }
),
TP_printk("o=%08x %s B=%llx c=%u aux=%llx dsk=%llx",
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 12:02 [PATCH 0/3] netfs, cachefiles: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2026-08-24 12:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] netfs: Fix uninitialized return value in netfs_unbuffered_write() David Howells
2026-08-24 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] netfs: Fix read progress reporting David Howells
2026-08-24 12:02 ` David Howells [this message]
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