Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfs: fix a UAF when inode item push

Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-23T17:22:42Z

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:04:39PM +0800, Long Li wrote:
> KASAN reported a UAF bug while fault injection test:
>
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in xfs_inode_item_push+0x2db/0x2f0
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff888022f74788 by task xfsaild/sda/479
>
> CPU: 0 PID: 479 Comm: xfsaild/sda Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7-00003-ga8a43e2eb5f6 #89
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x6a
> print_report+0x171/0x4a6
> kasan_report+0xb7/0x130
> xfs_inode_item_push+0x2db/0x2f0
> xfsaild+0x729/0x1f70
> kthread+0x290/0x340
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> </TASK>
>
> Allocated by task 494:
> kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x40
> kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
> __kasan_slab_alloc+0x58/0x70
> kmem_cache_alloc+0x197/0x5d0
> xfs_inode_item_init+0x62/0x170
> xfs_trans_ijoin+0x15e/0x240
> xfs_init_new_inode+0x573/0x1820
> xfs_create+0x6a1/0x1020
> xfs_generic_create+0x544/0x5d0
> vfs_mkdir+0x5d0/0x980
> do_mkdirat+0x14e/0x220
> __x64_sys_mkdir+0x6a/0x80
> do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>
> Freed by task 14:
> kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x40
> kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
> kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x40
> __kasan_slab_free+0x114/0x1b0
> kmem_cache_free+0xee/0x4e0
> xfs_inode_free_callback+0x187/0x2a0
> rcu_do_batch+0x317/0xce0
> rcu_core+0x686/0xa90
> __do_softirq+0x1b6/0x626
>
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888022f74758
> which belongs to the cache xfs_ili of size 200
> The buggy address is located 48 bytes inside of
> 200-byte region [ffff888022f74758, ffff888022f74820)
>
> The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> page:ffffea00008bdd00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x22f74
> head:ffffea00008bdd00 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 subpages_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
> flags: 0x1fffff80010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
> raw: 001fffff80010200 ffff888010ed4040 ffffea00008b2510 ffffea00008bde10
> raw: 0000000000000000 00000000001a001a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
>
> Memory state around the buggy address:
> ffff888022f74680: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc
> ffff888022f74700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb
> >ffff888022f74780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ^
> ffff888022f74800: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> ffff888022f74880: fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> ==================================================================
>
> When push inode item in xfsaild, it will race with reclaim inodes task.
> Consider the following call graph, both tasks deal with the same inode.
> During flushing the cluster, it will enter xfs_iflush_abort() in shutdown
> conditions, inode's XFS_IFLUSHING flag will be cleared and lip->li_buf set
> to null. Concurrently, inode will be reclaimed in shutdown conditions,
> there is no need to wait xfs buf lock because of lip->li_buf is null at
> this time, inode will be freed via rcu callback if xfsaild task schedule
> out during flushing the cluster. so, it is unsafe to reference lip after
> flushing the cluster in xfs_inode_item_push().
>
> <log item is in AIL>
> <filesystem shutdown>
> spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock)
> xfs_inode_item_push(lip)
> xfs_buf_trylock(bp)
> spin_unlock(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock)
> xfs_iflush_cluster(bp)
> if (xfs_is_shutdown())
> xfs_iflush_abort(ip)
> xfs_trans_ail_delete(ip)
> spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock)
> spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock)
> xfs_iflush_abort_clean(ip)
> error = -EIO
> <log item removed from AIL>
> <log item li_buf set to null>
> if (error)
> xfs_force_shutdown()
> xlog_shutdown_wait(mp->m_log)
> might_sleep()
> xfs_reclaim_inode(ip)
> if (shutdown)
> xfs_iflush_shutdown_abort(ip)
> if (!bp)
> xfs_iflush_abort(ip)
> return
> __xfs_inode_free(ip)
> call_rcu(ip, xfs_inode_free_callback)
> ......
> <rcu grace period expires>
> <rcu free callbacks run somewhere>
> xfs_inode_free_callback(ip)
> kmem_cache_free(ip->i_itemp)
> ......
> <starts running again>
> xfs_buf_ioend_fail(bp);
> xfs_buf_ioend(bp)
> xfs_buf_relse(bp);
> return error
> spin_lock(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock)
> <UAF on log item>
>
> Additionally, after xfsaild_push_item(), the tracepoints can still access
> the log item, potentially causing a UAF. I've previously submitted two
> versions [1][2] attempting to solve this issue, but the solutions had
> flaws.
>
> Fix it by returning XFS_ITEM_UNSAFE in xfs_inode_item_push() when the log
> item might be freed, ensuring xfsaild does not access the log item after
> it is pushed.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xfs/patch/20230211022941.GA1515023@ceph-admin/
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xfs/patch/20230722025721.312909-1-leo.lilong@huawei.com/
> Fixes: 90c60e164012 ("xfs: xfs_iflush() is no longer necessary")
> Signed-off-by: Long Li <leo.lilong@huawei.com>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
> index b509cbd191f4..c855cd2c81a5 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
> @@ -720,10 +720,11 @@ STATIC uint
> xfs_inode_item_push(
> struct xfs_log_item *lip,
> struct list_head *buffer_list)
> - __releases(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock)
> - __acquires(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock)
> + __releases(&ailp->ail_lock)
> + __acquires(&ailp->ail_lock)

I wonder, is smatch or whatever actually uses these annotations smart
enough to read through the local variable declarations below?

> {
> struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = INODE_ITEM(lip);
> + struct xfs_ail *ailp = lip->li_ailp;
> struct xfs_inode *ip = iip->ili_inode;
> struct xfs_buf *bp = lip->li_buf;
> uint rval = XFS_ITEM_SUCCESS;
> @@ -748,7 +749,7 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
> if (!xfs_buf_trylock(bp))
> return XFS_ITEM_LOCKED;
>
> - spin_unlock(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock);
> + spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
>
> /*
> * We need to hold a reference for flushing the cluster buffer as it may
> @@ -762,17 +763,23 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
> if (!xfs_buf_delwri_queue(bp, buffer_list))
> rval = XFS_ITEM_FLUSHING;
> xfs_buf_relse(bp);
> - } else {
> + } else if (error == -EAGAIN) {
> /*
> * Release the buffer if we were unable to flush anything. On
> * any other error, the buffer has already been released.
> */
> - if (error == -EAGAIN)
> - xfs_buf_relse(bp);
> + xfs_buf_relse(bp);
> rval = XFS_ITEM_LOCKED;
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * The filesystem has already been shut down. If there's a race
> + * between inode flush and inode reclaim, the inode might be
> + * freed. Accessing the item after this point would be unsafe.
> + */
> + rval = XFS_ITEM_UNSAFE;

I wonder if it's time to convert this to a switch statement but the fix
looks correct so

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> }
>
> - spin_lock(&lip->li_ailp->ail_lock);
> + spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> return rval;
> }
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
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