APPLIED: [SRU Bionic] iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users

Luke Nowakowski-Krijger luke.nowakowskikrijger at canonical.com
Wed Oct 5 17:01:25 UTC 2022


Applied to bionic/linux master-next,

Thanks!

- Luke

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 12:04 PM Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <
cascardo at canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Qian Cai <cai at lca.pw>
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1989144
>
> It is trivial to trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in iomap_dio_actor() by
> unprivileged users which would taint the kernel, or worse - panic if
> panic_on_warn or panic_on_taint is set. Hence, just convert it to
> pr_warn_ratelimited() to let users know their workloads are racing.
> Thank Dave Chinner for the initial analysis of the racing reproducers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai at lca.pw>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> (backported from commit a805c111650cdba6ee880f528abdd03c1af82089)
> [cascardo: code was moved from fs/iomap.c to fs/iomap/direct-io.c]
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/iomap.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
> index b66b047ac1ac..8b022e8fa0a2 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap.c
> @@ -899,6 +899,16 @@ iomap_dio_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
> loff_t length,
>                                 use_fua = true;
>                 }
>                 break;
> +       case IOMAP_DELALLOC:
> +               /*
> +                * DIO is not serialised against mmap() access at all, and
> so
> +                * if the page_mkwrite occurs between the writeback and the
> +                * iomap_apply() call in the DIO path, then it will see the
> +                * DELALLOC block that the page-mkwrite allocated.
> +                */
> +               pr_warn_ratelimited("Direct I/O collision with buffered
> writes! File: %pD4 Comm: %.20s\n",
> +                                   dio->iocb->ki_filp, current->comm);
> +               return -EIO;
>         default:
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>                 return -EIO;
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
> --
> kernel-team mailing list
> kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/attachments/20221005/0686b216/attachment.html>


More information about the kernel-team mailing list