[PATCH 3.16 105/306] vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()

Ben Hutchings
2017-02-15T23:31:22Z

From: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>

commit c2a9737f45e27d8263ff9643f994bda9bac0b944 upstream.

We triggered a deadloop in truncate_inode_pages_range() on 32 bits
architecture with the test case bellow:

...
fd = open();
write(fd, buf, 4096);
preadv64(fd, &iovec, 1, 0xffffffff000);
ftruncate(fd, 0);
...

Then ftruncate() will not return forever.

The filesystem used in this case is ubifs, but it can be triggered on
many other filesystems.

When preadv64() is called with offset=0xffffffff000, a page with
index=0xffffffff will be added to the radix tree of ->mapping. Then
this page can be found in ->mapping with pagevec_lookup(). After that,
truncate_inode_pages_range(), which is called in ftruncate(), will fall
into an infinite loop:

- find a page with index=0xffffffff, since index>=end, this page won't
be truncated

- index++, and index become 0

- the page with index=0xffffffff will be found again

The data type of index is unsigned long, so index won't overflow to 0 on
64 bits architecture in this case, and the dead loop won't happen.

Since truncate_inode_pages_range() is executed with holding lock of
inode->i_rwsem, any operation related with this lock will be blocked,
and a hung task will happen, e.g.:

INFO: task truncate_test:3364 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
...
call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x17/0x30
generic_file_write_iter+0x32/0x1c0
ubifs_write_iter+0xcc/0x170
__vfs_write+0xc4/0x120
vfs_write+0xb2/0x1b0
SyS_write+0x46/0xa0

The page with index=0xffffffff added to ->mapping is useless. Fix this
by checking the read position before allocating pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475151010-40166-1-git-send-email-fangwei1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
mm/filemap.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,10 @@ static ssize_t do_generic_file_read(stru
unsigned int prev_offset;
int error = 0;

+ if (unlikely(*ppos >= inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ iov_iter_truncate(iter, inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes);
+
index = *ppos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
prev_index = ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
prev_offset = ra->prev_pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1);