From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
To: Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com>
Cc: chao@kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, niuzhiguo84@gmail.com,
ke.wang@unisoc.com, Hao_hao.Wang@unisoc.com,
baocong.liu@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:08:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aEhYfYrknbNzT8Or@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1749107920-17958-1-git-send-email-zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com>
Hi Zhiguo,
This patch causes CPU hang when running fsstress on compressed/non-compressed
files. Please check.
On 06/05, Zhiguo Niu wrote:
> The decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after
> I/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read,
> and the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet
> due to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info)
> is evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic.
>
> The UAF case as below:
> Thread A Thread B
> - f2fs_decompress_end_io
> - f2fs_put_dic
> - queue_work
> add free_dic work to post_read_wq
> - do_unlink
> - iput
> - evict
> - call_rcu
> This file is deleted after read.
>
> Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq
> - rcu_do_batch
> - f2fs_free_inode
> - kmem_cache_free
> inode is freed by rcu
> - process_scheduled_works
> - f2fs_late_free_dic
> - f2fs_free_dic
> - f2fs_release_decomp_mem
> read (dic->inode)->i_compress_algorithm
>
> This patch use igrab before f2fs_free_dic and iput after free the dic when dic free
> action is done by kworker.
>
> Cc: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
> Fixes: bff139b49d9f ("f2fs: handle decompress only post processing in softirq")
> Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baocong Liu <baocong.liu@unisoc.com>
> ---
> v3: use igrab to replace __iget
> v2: use __iget/iput function
> ---
> fs/f2fs/compress.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/compress.c b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> index b3c1df9..729ad16 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> @@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ static void f2fs_release_decomp_mem(struct decompress_io_ctx *dic,
> }
>
> static void f2fs_free_dic(struct decompress_io_ctx *dic,
> - bool bypass_destroy_callback);
> + bool bypass_destroy_callback, bool late_free);
>
> struct decompress_io_ctx *f2fs_alloc_dic(struct compress_ctx *cc)
> {
> @@ -1743,12 +1743,12 @@ struct decompress_io_ctx *f2fs_alloc_dic(struct compress_ctx *cc)
> return dic;
>
> out_free:
> - f2fs_free_dic(dic, true);
> + f2fs_free_dic(dic, true, false);
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
> }
>
> static void f2fs_free_dic(struct decompress_io_ctx *dic,
> - bool bypass_destroy_callback)
> + bool bypass_destroy_callback, bool late_free)
> {
> int i;
>
> @@ -1775,6 +1775,8 @@ static void f2fs_free_dic(struct decompress_io_ctx *dic,
> }
>
> page_array_free(dic->inode, dic->rpages, dic->nr_rpages);
> + if (late_free)
> + iput(dic->inode);
> kmem_cache_free(dic_entry_slab, dic);
> }
>
> @@ -1783,16 +1785,18 @@ static void f2fs_late_free_dic(struct work_struct *work)
> struct decompress_io_ctx *dic =
> container_of(work, struct decompress_io_ctx, free_work);
>
> - f2fs_free_dic(dic, false);
> + f2fs_free_dic(dic, false, true);
> }
>
> static void f2fs_put_dic(struct decompress_io_ctx *dic, bool in_task)
> {
> if (refcount_dec_and_test(&dic->refcnt)) {
> if (in_task) {
> - f2fs_free_dic(dic, false);
> + f2fs_free_dic(dic, false, false);
> } else {
> INIT_WORK(&dic->free_work, f2fs_late_free_dic);
> + /* use igrab to avoid inode is evicted simultaneously */
> + f2fs_bug_on(F2FS_I_SB(dic->inode), !igrab(dic->inode));
> queue_work(F2FS_I_SB(dic->inode)->post_read_wq,
> &dic->free_work);
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-10 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-05 7:18 Zhiguo Niu
2025-06-05 8:16 ` Chao Yu
2025-06-10 16:08 ` Jaegeuk Kim [this message]
2025-06-11 6:07 ` Chao Yu
2025-06-11 6:41 ` Zhiguo Niu
2025-06-11 6:47 ` Chao Yu
2025-06-11 6:52 ` Zhiguo Niu
2025-06-11 7:51 ` Zhiguo Niu
2025-06-11 8:59 ` Chao Yu
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