From: Tejas Bharambe <thbharam@gmail.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev
Cc: mark@fasheh.com, jlbec@evilplan.org, joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+a49010a0e8fcdeea075f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Tejas Bharambe <tejas.bharambe@outlook.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6] ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:38:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410083816.34951-1-tejas.bharambe@outlook.com> (raw)
From: Tejas Bharambe <tejas.bharambe@outlook.com>
filemap_fault() may drop the mmap_lock before returning VM_FAULT_RETRY,
as documented in mm/filemap.c:
"If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it's because the mmap_lock
may be dropped before doing I/O or by lock_folio_maybe_drop_mmap()."
When this happens, a concurrent munmap() can call remove_vma() and free
the vm_area_struct via RCU. The saved 'vma' pointer in ocfs2_fault() then
becomes a dangling pointer, and the subsequent trace_ocfs2_fault() call
dereferences it -- a use-after-free.
Fix this by saving ip_blkno as a plain integer before calling
filemap_fault(), and removing vma from the trace event. Since
ip_blkno is copied by value before the lock can be dropped, it
remains valid regardless of what happens to the vma or inode
afterward.
Reported-by: syzbot+a49010a0e8fcdeea075f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a49010a0e8fcdeea075f
Suggested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejas Bharambe <tejas.bharambe@outlook.com>
---
fs/ocfs2/mmap.c | 7 +++----
fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h | 10 ++++------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c b/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
index 50e2faf64c..6c570157ca 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
static vm_fault_t ocfs2_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
{
- struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+ unsigned long long ip_blkno =
+ OCFS2_I(file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file))->ip_blkno;
sigset_t oldset;
vm_fault_t ret;
@@ -38,11 +39,9 @@ static vm_fault_t ocfs2_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
ret = filemap_fault(vmf);
ocfs2_unblock_signals(&oldset);
- trace_ocfs2_fault(OCFS2_I(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host)->ip_blkno,
- vma, vmf->page, vmf->pgoff);
+ trace_ocfs2_fault(ip_blkno, vmf->page, vmf->pgoff);
return ret;
}
-
static vm_fault_t __ocfs2_page_mkwrite(struct file *file,
struct buffer_head *di_bh, struct folio *folio)
{
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
index 4b32fb5658..6c2c97a980 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
@@ -1246,22 +1246,20 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ocfs2_write_end_inline,
TRACE_EVENT(ocfs2_fault,
TP_PROTO(unsigned long long ino,
- void *area, void *page, unsigned long pgoff),
- TP_ARGS(ino, area, page, pgoff),
+ void *page, unsigned long pgoff),
+ TP_ARGS(ino, page, pgoff),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(unsigned long long, ino)
- __field(void *, area)
__field(void *, page)
__field(unsigned long, pgoff)
),
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->ino = ino;
- __entry->area = area;
__entry->page = page;
__entry->pgoff = pgoff;
),
- TP_printk("%llu %p %p %lu",
- __entry->ino, __entry->area, __entry->page, __entry->pgoff)
+ TP_printk("%llu %p %lu",
+ __entry->ino, __entry->page, __entry->pgoff)
);
/* End of trace events for fs/ocfs2/mmap.c. */
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-10 8:38 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-10 8:38 Tejas Bharambe [this message]
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2026-04-10 10:23 ` Tejas Bharambe
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