Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] documentation: Block Devices Snapshots Module

[Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Sergei,

On 4/19/23 15:05, Sergei Shtepa wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/18/23 16:48, Donald Buczek wrote:
>> Subject:
>> Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] documentation: Block Devices Snapshots Module
>> From:
>> Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
>> Date:
>> 4/18/23, 16:48
>>
>> To:
>> Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, corbet@lwn.net, snitzer@kernel.org
>> CC:
>> viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, kch@nvidia.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, vkoul@kernel.org, ming.lei@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>>
>>
>> On 4/18/23 12:31, Sergei Shtepa wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/14/23 14:34, Sergei Shtepa wrote:
>>>> Subject:
>>>> Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] documentation: Block Devices Snapshots Module
>>>> From:
>>>> Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>
>>>> Date:
>>>> 4/14/23, 14:34
>>>>
>>>> To:
>>>> Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, corbet@lwn.net, snitzer@kernel.org
>>>> CC:
>>>> viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, kch@nvidia.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, vkoul@kernel.org, ming.lei@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/12/23 21:38, Donald Buczek wrote:
>>>>> Subject:
>>>>> Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] documentation: Block Devices Snapshots Module
>>>>> From:
>>>>> Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
>>>>> Date:
>>>>> 4/12/23, 21:38
>>>>>
>>>>> To:
>>>>> Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, corbet@lwn.net, snitzer@kernel.org
>>>>> CC:
>>>>> viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, kch@nvidia.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, vkoul@kernel.org, ming.lei@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, you can trigger all kind of user-after-free when userspace deletes a snapshot image or the snapshot image and the tracker while the disk device snapshot image is kept alive (mounted or just opened) and doing I/O.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is what I did to provoke that:
>>>>>
>>>>> root@dose:~# s=$(blksnap snapshot_create -d /dev/vdb)
>>>>> root@dose:~# blksnap snapshot_appendstorage -i $s -f /scratch/local/test.dat
>>>>> device path: '/dev/block/253:2'
>>>>> allocate range: ofs=11264624 cnt=2097152
>>>>> root@dose:~# blksnap snapshot_take -i $s
>>>>> root@dose:~# mount /dev/blksnap-image_253\:16 /mnt
>>>>> root@dose:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/x.x &
>>>>> [1] 2514
>>>>> root@dose:~# blksnap snapshot_destroy -i $s
>>>>> dd: writing to '/mnt/x.x': No space left on device
>>>>> 1996041+0 records in
>>>>> 1996040+0 records out
>>>>> 1021972480 bytes (1.0 GB, 975 MiB) copied, 8.48923 s, 120 MB/s
>>>>> [1]+  Exit 1                  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/x.x
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> I am very glad that the blksnap tool turned out to be useful in the review.
>>>> This snapshot deletion scenario is not the most typical, but of course it is
>>>> quite possible.
>>>> I will need to solve this problem and add such a scenario to the test suite.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have redesign the logic of ownership of the diff_area structure.
>>> See patch in attach or commit.
>>> Link: https://github.com/SergeiShtepa/linux/commit/7e927c381dcd2b2293be8315897a224d111b6f88
>>> A test script for such a scenario has been added.
>>> Link: https://github.com/veeam/blksnap/commit/fd0559dfedf094901d08bbf185fed288f0156433
>>>
>>> I will be glad of any feedback.
>>
>> Great, Thanks!
>>
>> However, there are two leftover calls to diff_area_free() with its old prototype:
>>
>>   CC [M]  drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.o
>> drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.c: In function ‘diff_area_new’:
>> drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.c:283:18: error: passing argument 1 of ‘diff_area_free’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>>    283 |   diff_area_free(diff_area);
>>        |                  ^~~~~~~~~
>>        |                  |
>>        |                  struct diff_area *
>> drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.c:110:34: note: expected ‘struct kref *’ but argument is of type ‘struct diff_area *’
>>    110 | void diff_area_free(struct kref *kref)
>>        |                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:252: drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.o] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers/block/blksnap] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers/block] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:2025: .] Error 2
>>
>> The other one:
>>
>> buczek@dose:/scratch/local/linux (blksnap-test)$ make drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.o
>>    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>>    DESCEND objtool
>>    INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
>>    CC [M]  drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.o
>> drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.c: In function ‘tracker_free’:
>> drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.c:26:25: error: passing argument 1 of ‘diff_area_free’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>>     26 |   diff_area_free(tracker->diff_area);
>>        |                  ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~
>>        |                         |
>>        |                         struct diff_area *
>> In file included from drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.c:12:
>> drivers/block/blksnap/diff_area.h:116:34: note: expected ‘struct kref *’ but argument is of type ‘struct diff_area *’
>>    116 | void diff_area_free(struct kref *kref);
>>        |                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:252: drivers/block/blksnap/tracker.o] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers/block/blksnap] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers/block] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:494: drivers] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:2025: .] Error 2
>>
>> Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> It seems to me that I missed something.
> The biggest mystery for me is why I was able to build and test the kernel.
> I think it's some kind of incremental build effect.
> I was only able to see the problem after 'make clean'.
> 
> Patches in attach and https://github.com/SergeiShtepa/linux/tree/blksnap-master

Thanks. I can confirm that this fixes the reported problem and I no longer can trigger the UAF. :-)

Tested-Bny: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>

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Best

   Donald
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