[PATCH 5.10 004/130] ovl: fix deadlock in splice write

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-06T15:32:51Z

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

commit 9b91b6b019fda817eb52f728eb9c79b3579760bc upstream.

There's possibility of an ABBA deadlock in case of a splice write to an
overlayfs file and a concurrent splice write to a corresponding real file.

The call chain for splice to an overlay file:

-> do_splice [takes sb_writers on overlay file]
-> do_splice_from
-> iter_file_splice_write [takes pipe->mutex]
-> vfs_iter_write
...
-> ovl_write_iter [takes sb_writers on real file]

And the call chain for splice to a real file:

-> do_splice [takes sb_writers on real file]
-> do_splice_from
-> iter_file_splice_write [takes pipe->mutex]

Syzbot successfully bisected this to commit 82a763e61e2b ("ovl: simplify
file splice").

Fix by reverting the write part of the above commit and by adding missing
bits from ovl_write_iter() into ovl_splice_write().

Fixes: 82a763e61e2b ("ovl: simplify file splice")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+579885d1a9a833336209@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/overlayfs/file.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -422,6 +422,51 @@ out_unlock:
return ret;
}

+/*
+ * Calling iter_file_splice_write() directly from overlay's f_op may deadlock
+ * due to lock order inversion between pipe->mutex in iter_file_splice_write()
+ * and file_start_write(real.file) in ovl_write_iter().
+ *
+ * So do everything ovl_write_iter() does and call iter_file_splice_write() on
+ * the real file.
+ */
+static ssize_t ovl_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
+ loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct fd real;
+ const struct cred *old_cred;
+ struct inode *inode = file_inode(out);
+ struct inode *realinode = ovl_inode_real(inode);
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ inode_lock(inode);
+ /* Update mode */
+ ovl_copyattr(realinode, inode);
+ ret = file_remove_privs(out);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ ret = ovl_real_fdget(out, &real);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
+ file_start_write(real.file);
+
+ ret = iter_file_splice_write(pipe, real.file, ppos, len, flags);
+
+ file_end_write(real.file);
+ /* Update size */
+ ovl_copyattr(realinode, inode);
+ revert_creds(old_cred);
+ fdput(real);
+
+out_unlock:
+ inode_unlock(inode);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int ovl_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
{
struct fd real;
@@ -731,7 +776,7 @@ const struct file_operations ovl_file_op
.compat_ioctl = ovl_compat_ioctl,
#endif
.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
- .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write,
+ .splice_write = ovl_splice_write,

.copy_file_range = ovl_copy_file_range,
.remap_file_range = ovl_remap_file_range,