[PATCH SRU T] xfs: XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE() should be false if no rt device present

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Wed Sep 27 13:27:29 UTC 2017


From: Richard Wareing <rwareing at fb.com>

If using a kernel with CONFIG_XFS_RT=y and we set the RHINHERIT flag on
a directory in a filesystem that does not have a realtime device and
create a new file in that directory, it gets marked as a real time file.
When data is written and a fsync is issued, the filesystem attempts to
flush a non-existent rt device during the fsync process.

This results in a crash dereferencing a null buftarg pointer in
xfs_blkdev_issue_flush():

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: xfs_blkdev_issue_flush+0xd/0x20
  .....
  Call Trace:
    xfs_file_fsync+0x188/0x1c0
    vfs_fsync_range+0x3b/0xa0
    do_fsync+0x3d/0x70
    SyS_fsync+0x10/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x4d/0xb0
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Setting RT inode flags does not require special privileges so any
unprivileged user can cause this oops to occur.  To reproduce, confirm
kernel is compiled with CONFIG_XFS_RT=y and run:

  # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/pmem0
  # mount /dev/pmem0 /mnt/test
  # mkdir /mnt/test/foo
  # xfs_io -c 'chattr +t' /mnt/test/foo
  # xfs_io -f -c 'pwrite 0 5m' -c fsync /mnt/test/foo/bar

Or just run xfstests with MKFS_OPTIONS="-d rtinherit=1" and wait.

Kernels built with CONFIG_XFS_RT=n are not exposed to this bug.

Fixes: f538d4da8d52 ("[XFS] write barrier support")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Wareing <rwareing at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(backported from commit b31ff3cdf540110da4572e3e29bd172087af65cc)
CVE-2017-14340
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h
index e5869b50dc41..6264bdb20f01 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h
@@ -226,7 +226,14 @@ static inline void xfs_dinode_put_rdev(struct xfs_dinode *dip, xfs_dev_t rdev)
 #define XFS_DIFLAG_FILESTREAM    (1 << XFS_DIFLAG_FILESTREAM_BIT)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_XFS_RT
-#define XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip) ((ip)->i_d.di_flags & XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME)
+
+/*
+ * make sure we ignore the inode flag if the filesystem doesn't have a
+ * configured realtime device.
+ */
+#define XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip)                      \
+	(((ip)->i_d.di_flags & XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME) &&  \
+	 (ip)->i_mount->m_rtdev_targp)
 #else
 #define XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip) (0)
 #endif
-- 
2.11.0





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