From patchwork Wed May 23 18:27:59 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Joseph Salisbury X-Patchwork-Id: 919269 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=lists.ubuntu.com (client-ip=91.189.94.19; helo=huckleberry.canonical.com; envelope-from=kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=canonical.com Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40rgxR6Wxhz9s0y; Thu, 24 May 2018 04:28:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLYUX-0002nZ-09; Wed, 23 May 2018 18:28:05 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLYUT-0002ly-54 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 23 May 2018 18:28:01 +0000 Received: from 1.general.jsalisbury.us.vpn ([10.172.67.212] helo=salisbury) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1fLYUS-0003ui-QR for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 23 May 2018 18:28:00 +0000 Received: by salisbury (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B14537E24D7; Wed, 23 May 2018 14:27:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Salisbury To: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [Cosmic][PATCH 1/1] fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 14:27:59 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.0 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: "kernel-team" From: Robert Kolchmeyer BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1771075 fsnotify() acquires a reference to a fsnotify_mark_connector through the SRCU-protected pointer to_tell->i_fsnotify_marks. However, it appears that no precautions are taken in fsnotify_put_mark() to ensure that fsnotify() drops its reference to this fsnotify_mark_connector before assigning a value to its 'destroy_next' field. This can result in fsnotify_put_mark() assigning a value to a connector's 'destroy_next' field right before fsnotify() tries to traverse the linked list referenced by the connector's 'list' field. Since these two fields are members of the same union, this behavior results in a kernel panic. This issue is resolved by moving the connector's 'destroy_next' field into the object pointer union. This should work since the object pointer access is protected by both a spinlock and the value of the 'flags' field, and the 'flags' field is cleared while holding the spinlock in fsnotify_put_mark() before 'destroy_next' is updated. It shouldn't be possible for another thread to accidentally read from the object pointer after the 'destroy_next' field is updated. The offending behavior here is extremely unlikely; since fsnotify_put_mark() removes references to a connector (specifically, it ensures that the connector is unreachable from the inode it was formerly attached to) before updating its 'destroy_next' field, a sizeable chunk of code in fsnotify_put_mark() has to execute in the short window between when fsnotify() acquires the connector reference and saves the value of its 'list' field. On the HEAD kernel, I've only been able to reproduce this by inserting a udelay(1) in fsnotify(). However, I've been able to reproduce this issue without inserting a udelay(1) anywhere on older unmodified release kernels, so I believe it's worth fixing at HEAD. References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199437 Fixes: 08991e83b7286635167bab40927665a90fb00d81 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Robert Kolchmeyer Signed-off-by: Jan Kara (cherry picked from commit d90a10e2444ba5a351fa695917258ff4c5709fa5) Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury --- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h index c6c6931..3504ac3 100644 --- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h @@ -216,12 +216,10 @@ struct fsnotify_mark_connector { union { /* Object pointer [lock] */ struct inode *inode; struct vfsmount *mnt; - }; - union { - struct hlist_head list; /* Used listing heads to free after srcu period expires */ struct fsnotify_mark_connector *destroy_next; }; + struct hlist_head list; }; /*