From nobody Sat Apr 11 21:02:49 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B74FC25B08 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 12:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240719AbiHEM2C (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2022 08:28:02 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34998 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237655AbiHEM2A (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2022 08:28:00 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com (szxga02-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.188]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52A4F28711; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 05:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpeml500021.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.57]) by szxga02-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4LzlD35kSszlVlK; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 20:25:07 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.127.227) by dggpeml500021.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 20:27:53 +0800 From: Baokun Li To: CC: , , , , , , , , , , Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 20:39:47 +0800 Message-ID: <20220805123947.565152-1-libaokun1@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.175.127.227] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To dggpeml500021.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.21) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I caught a null-ptr-deref bug as follows: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f] CPU: 1 PID: 1589 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-02219-dirty #339 RIP: 0010:ext4_write_info+0x53/0x1b0 [...] Call Trace: dquot_writeback_dquots+0x341/0x9a0 ext4_sync_fs+0x19e/0x800 __sync_filesystem+0x83/0x100 sync_filesystem+0x89/0xf0 generic_shutdown_super+0x79/0x3e0 kill_block_super+0xa1/0x110 deactivate_locked_super+0xac/0x130 deactivate_super+0xb6/0xd0 cleanup_mnt+0x289/0x400 __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20 task_work_run+0x11c/0x1c0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x203/0x210 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5b/0x3a0 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x70 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Above issue may happen as follows: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara ------------------------------------- exit_to_user_mode_prepare task_work_run __cleanup_mnt cleanup_mnt deactivate_super deactivate_locked_super kill_block_super generic_shutdown_super shrink_dcache_for_umount dentry =3D sb->s_root sb->s_root =3D NULL <--- Here set NULL sync_filesystem __sync_filesystem sb->s_op->sync_fs > ext4_sync_fs dquot_writeback_dquots sb->dq_op->write_info > ext4_write_info ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2) d_inode(sb->s_root) s_root->d_inode <--- Null pointer dereference To solve this problem, we use ext4_journal_start_sb directly to avoid s_root being used. Signed-off-by: Baokun Li --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 9a66abcca1a8..0ce4565422f6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -6653,7 +6653,7 @@ static int ext4_write_info(struct super_block *sb, in= t type) handle_t *handle; =20 /* Data block + inode block */ - handle =3D ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2); + handle =3D ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2); if (IS_ERR(handle)) return PTR_ERR(handle); ret =3D dquot_commit_info(sb, type); --=20 2.31.1