Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix a NULL pointer when validating an inode bitmap

["Luís Henriques" <lhenriques@suse.de>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 08:32:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> First of all, you replied to this patch a completely different patch,
> "ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len".  This
> very much confuses b4, so please don't do that.  If you send a patch
> series, where the message-id are related, e.g.:
> 
>     20221011155623.14840-1-lhenriques@suse.de
>     20221011155623.14840-2-lhenriques@suse.de
> 
> etc., b4 will figure out what is going on.  But when the message id's
> are unrelated, e.g:
> 
>     20221011155623.14840-1-lhenriques@suse.de
> vs    
>     20221012131330.32456-1-lhenriques@suse.de
> 
> ... b4 will assume that 20221012131330.32456-1-lhenriques@suse.de is a
> newer version of 20221011155623.14840-1-lhenriques@suse.de and there
> is apparently no way to tell it to not try to use the "newer" version
> of the patch.

Yeah, I'm really sorry for this.  As I mentioned in a reply to that email,
I messed it up by running my scripts from shell history, without cleaning
the extra parameters.  Lesson learned -- *never* use shell history for
sending patches! :-(

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 04:56:24PM +0100, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > It's possible to hit a NULL pointer exception while accessing the
> > sb->s_group_info in ext4_validate_inode_bitmap(), when calling
> > ext4_get_group_info().
> 
>   ...
> 
> > This issue can be fixed by returning NULL in ext4_get_group_info() when
> > ->s_group_info is NULL.  This also requires checking the return code from
> > ext4_get_group_info() when appropriate.
> 
> I don't believe this is a correct diagnosis of what is going on.  Did
> you actually confirm the line numbers associated with the call stack?

Here's the line numbers:

$ ./scripts/faddr2line fs/ext4/ialloc.o ext4_read_inode_bitmap+0x21b/0x5a0
ext4_read_inode_bitmap+0x21b/0x5a0:
ext4_get_group_info at /home/miguel/kernel/linux/fs/ext4/ext4.h:3332
(inlined by) ext4_validate_inode_bitmap at /home/miguel/kernel/linux/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:90
(inlined by) ext4_read_inode_bitmap at /home/miguel/kernel/linux/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:210

This is on a 6.1.0-rc4 kernel, where I got:

  RIP: 0010:ext4_read_inode_bitmap+0x21b/0x5a0

So, the issue is happening in ext4_read_inode_bitmap(), when
jumping to the 'verify' label from here:

    184         if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
    185                 /*
    186                  * if not uninit if bh is uptodate,
    187                  * bitmap is also uptodate
    188                  */
    189                 set_bitmap_uptodate(bh);
    190                 unlock_buffer(bh);
    191                 goto verify;
    192         }
    ...
    209 verify:
==> 210         err = ext4_validate_inode_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
    211         if (err)
    212                 goto out;
    213         return bh;
    214 out:
    215         put_bh(bh);
    216         return ERR_PTR(err);
    217 }

> What makes you believe that?  Look at how s_group_info is initialized
> in ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo() in fs/ext4/mballoc.c.  It's pretty
> careful to make sure this is not the case.

Right.  I may be missing something, but I don't think we get that far.
__ext4_fill_super() will first call ext4_setup_system_zone() (which is
where this bug occurs) and only after that ext4_mb_init() will be invoked
(which is where ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo() will eventually be called).

> >  EXT4-fs (loop0): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> >  EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_clear_blocks:866: inode #32: comm mount: attempt to clear invalid blocks 16777450 len 1
> >  EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_free_branches:1012: inode #32: comm mount: invalid indirect mapped block 1258291200 (level 1)
> >  EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_free_branches:1012: inode #32: comm mount: invalid indirect mapped block 7379847 (level 2)
> >  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> >  ...
> >  RIP: 0010:ext4_read_inode_bitmap+0x21b/0x5a0
> >  ...
> >  Call Trace:
> >   <TASK>
> >   ext4_free_inode+0x172/0x5c0
> >   ext4_evict_inode+0x4a5/0x730
> >   evict+0xc1/0x1c0
> >   ext4_setup_system_zone+0x2ea/0x380
> >   ext4_fill_super+0x249f/0x3910
> >   ? ext4_reconfigure+0x880/0x880
> >   ? snprintf+0x49/0x60
> >   ? ext4_reconfigure+0x880/0x880
> >   get_tree_bdev+0x169/0x260
> >   vfs_get_tree+0x16/0x70
> >   path_mount+0x77d/0xa30
> >   __x64_sys_mount+0x101/0x140
> >   do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
> >   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> 
> So we're evicting an inode while in the middle of calling
> ext4_setup_system_zone() in fs/ext4/block_validity.c.  That can only
> happen if we are calling iput() on an an inode, and the only place
> that we do that in block_validity.c is in the function
> ext4_protect_reserved_inode() --- which we call on the journal inode.
> 
> Given the error messages, I suspect this was a fuzzed file system
> where the journal inode was not in the standard reserved ino, but
> rather in a the normal inode number, in s_journal_inum (which is a
> leftover relic from the very early ext3 days), and that inode number
> was then explicitly/maliciously placed on the orphan list, and then
> hilarity ensued from there.

Correct, the images do indeed have the wrong inode number (32) in
s_journal_inum.

> We need to add some better error checking to protect against this case
> in ext4_orphan_get().

Unfortunately, after some debug, I don't see ext4_orphan_get() ever being
invoked anywhere.

> 
> Do you have the file system image which triggered this failure?  Was
> it the same syzkaller report, or perhaps was it some other syzkaller
> report?

Yes, these were generated with a fuzzer, and the 2 images I've used as
reproducers were picked from the bugzillas in the commit 'Link' tags:

  Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541
  Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216539

To reproduce the issue you simply need to mount those images.

> 
> 
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > index 860fc5119009..e5ac5c2363df 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static Indirect *ext4_get_branch(struct inode *inode, int depth,
> >  	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> >  	Indirect *p = chain;
> >  	struct buffer_head *bh;
> > +	unsigned int key;
> >  	int ret = -EIO;
> >  
> >  	*err = 0;
> > @@ -156,9 +157,18 @@ static Indirect *ext4_get_branch(struct inode *inode, int depth,
> >  	if (!p->key)
> >  		goto no_block;
> >  	while (--depth) {
> > -		bh = sb_getblk(sb, le32_to_cpu(p->key));
> > +		key = le32_to_cpu(p->key);
> > +		bh = sb_getblk(sb, key);
> >  		if (unlikely(!bh)) {
> > -			ret = -ENOMEM;
> > +			/*
> > +			 * sb_getblk() masks different errors by always
> > +			 * returning NULL.  Let's distinguish at least the case
> > +			 * where the block is out of range.
> > +			 */
> > +			if (key > ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es))
> > +				ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> > +			else
> > +				ret = -ENOMEM;
> >  			goto failure;
> >  		}
> >
> 
> And this is fixing a completely different problem and should go in a
> different patch.  It's also not the best way of fixing it.  What we
> should do is check whether key is out of bounds *before* calling
> sb_getblkf(), and then call ext4_error() to mark the file system is
> corrupted, and then return -EFSCORRUPTED.

OK, makes sense.  I'll send out a separate patch for this.  Thanks a lot
for your review, Ted.

Cheers,
--
Luís