From nobody Fri Dec 19 15:46:20 2025 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 9C373C04A95 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230287AbiJVHsE (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2022 03:48:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38300 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231447AbiJVHrd (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2022 03:47:33 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7B5D37F9F; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 481B860B3B; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:39:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 53BD5C433D6; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:39:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1666424380; bh=KR9RihcwnwYiB/HtvfaHbTy/ZWvpYl/I0Y7UHaFuZMM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=yD20IUMBy0D+apAlofvfXqx7NkgYcrZNg3nF38yBvFN+OBpK4Yd2hLZj3OQ1dY0mh xgG2eRwTEhuATXGLxauephhj+kdtO86J7BN+y8Yvi0Onyu0kIsVJL2TYSC2Oug+2q8 +d6/5G2ZzkQiIarzZVtVMwl1oX63U1tUcJ6UTuPI= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Baokun Li , Jan Kara , Theodore Tso Subject: [PATCH 5.19 124/717] ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 09:20:03 +0200 Message-Id: <20221022072437.431554663@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.38.1 In-Reply-To: <20221022072415.034382448@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20221022072415.034382448@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Baokun Li commit f9c1f248607d5546075d3f731e7607d5571f2b60 upstream. 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. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220805123947.565152-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -6643,7 +6643,7 @@ static int ext4_write_info(struct super_ 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);