[PATCH 3/3] btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults

Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24T19:20:42Z

Commit a48b73eca4ce ("btrfs: fix potential deadlock in the search
ioctl") addressed a lockdep warning by pre-faulting the user pages and
attempting the copy_to_user_nofault() in an infinite loop. On
architectures like arm64 with MTE, an access may fault within a page at
a location different from what fault_in_writeable() probed. Since the
sk_offset is rewound to the previous struct btrfs_ioctl_search_header
boundary, there is no guaranteed forward progress and search_ioctl() may
live-lock.

Use fault_in_exact_writeable() instead which probes the entire user
buffer for faults at sub-page granularity.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 92138ac2a4e2..23167c72fa47 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2223,7 +2223,8 @@ static noinline int search_ioctl(struct inode *inode,

while (1) {
ret = -EFAULT;
- if (fault_in_writeable(ubuf + sk_offset, *buf_size - sk_offset))
+ if (fault_in_exact_writeable(ubuf + sk_offset,
+ *buf_size - sk_offset))
break;

ret = btrfs_search_forward(root, &key, path, sk->min_transid);