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Brian Foster 6958d11f77 xfs: don't trip over uninitialized buffer on extent read of corrupted inode
We've had rather rare reports of bmap btree block corruption where
the bmap root block has a level count of zero. The root cause of the
corruption is so far unknown. We do have verifier checks to detect
this form of on-disk corruption, but this doesn't cover a memory
corruption variant of the problem. The latter is a reasonable
possibility because the root block is part of the inode fork and can
reside in-core for some time before inode extents are read.

If this occurs, it leads to a system crash such as the following:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff00000221
 PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
 ...
 RIP: 0010:xfs_trans_brelse+0xf/0x200 [xfs]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  xfs_iread_extents+0x379/0x540 [xfs]
  xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay+0x11a/0xb40 [xfs]
  ? xfs_attr_get+0xd1/0x120 [xfs]
  ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0
  xfs_file_iomap_begin+0x4c4/0x6d0 [xfs]
  ? __vfs_getxattr+0x53/0x70
  ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0
  iomap_apply+0x63/0x130
  ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0
  iomap_file_buffered_write+0x62/0x90
  ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0xe4/0x3b0 [xfs]
  __vfs_write+0x150/0x1b0
  vfs_write+0xba/0x1c0
  ksys_pwrite64+0x64/0xa0
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The crash occurs because xfs_iread_extents() attempts to release an
uninitialized buffer pointer as the level == 0 value prevented the
buffer from ever being allocated or read. Change the level > 0
assert to an explicit error check in xfs_iread_extents() to avoid
crashing the kernel in the event of localized, in-core inode
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2019-03-17 15:21:49 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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