Re: [syzbot] WARNING in __kernel_write_iter

[David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 05:21:20PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 9:04 AM syzbot
> <syzbot+12e098239d20385264d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > HEAD commit:    a6afa4199d3d Merge tag 'mailbox-v6.1' of git://git.linaro...
> > git tree:       upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=110f6f0a880000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=d19f5d16783f901
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=12e098239d20385264d3
> > compiler:       Debian clang version 13.0.1-++20220126092033+75e33f71c2da-1~exp1~20220126212112.63, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> >
> > Downloadable assets:
> > disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/12e24d042ff9/disk-a6afa419.raw.xz
> > vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/4862ae4e2edf/vmlinux-a6afa419.xz
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+12e098239d20385264d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20347 at fs/read_write.c:504 __kernel_write_iter+0x639/0x740
> [...]
> >  __kernel_write fs/read_write.c:537 [inline]
> >  kernel_write+0x1c5/0x340 fs/read_write.c:558
> >  write_buf fs/btrfs/send.c:590 [inline]
> >  send_header fs/btrfs/send.c:708 [inline]
> >  send_subvol+0x1a7/0x4b60 fs/btrfs/send.c:7648
> >  btrfs_ioctl_send+0x1e34/0x2340 fs/btrfs/send.c:8014
> >  _btrfs_ioctl_send+0x2e8/0x420 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:5233
> >  btrfs_ioctl+0x5eb/0xc10
> >  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
> 
> The issue here is that BTRFS_IOC_SEND looks up an fd with fget() and
> then writes into it with kernel_write(). Luckily the ioctl requires
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and also Linux >=5.8 bails out on __kernel_write() on a
> read-only file, so this has no security impact.

I'm not sure if we could make the send ioctl safe for a non-root user,
the code there has been doing tricks that have security implications.

> I'm about to send a fix, let's have syzkaller check it beforehand:
> 
> #syz test https://github.com/thejh/linux.git 573fd2562e0f

The fix looks correct to me, thanks.