[PATCH] afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition

[PATCH] afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition

[David Howells]

syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1].  This is
because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held
inode lock is not released.

Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of
returning directly.

[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code
from afs_split_string()]

[1]
WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------
syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823:
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline]
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388

Reported-by: syzbot+76f33569875eb708e575@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=76f33569875eb708e575
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: syzbot+76f33569875eb708e575@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241226012616.2348907-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/
---
diff --git a/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c b/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
index a189ff8a5034..c0384201b8fe 100644
--- a/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
+++ b/fs/afs/addr_prefs.c
@@ -413,8 +413,10 @@ int afs_proc_addr_prefs_write(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
 
 	do {
 		argc = afs_split_string(&buf, argv, ARRAY_SIZE(argv));
-		if (argc < 0)
-			return argc;
+		if (argc < 0) {
+			ret = argc;
+			goto done;
+		}
 		if (argc < 2)
 			goto inval;
 

Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:52:32 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1].  This is
> because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held
> inode lock is not released.
> 
> Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of
> returning directly.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/31716216c799