If we have one task trying to start the quota rescan worker while another
one is trying to disable quotas, we can end up hitting a race that results
in the quota rescan worker doing a NULL pointer dereference. The steps for
this are the following:
1) Quotas are enabled;
2) Task A calls the quota rescan ioctl and enters btrfs_qgroup_rescan().
It calls qgroup_rescan_init() which returns 0 (success) and then joins a
transaction and commits it;
3) Task B calls the quota disable ioctl and enters btrfs_quota_disable().
It clears the bit BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED from fs_info->flags and calls
btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which returns immediately since the
rescan worker is not yet running.
Then it starts a transaction and locks fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock;
4) Task A queues the rescan worker, by calling btrfs_queue_work();
5) The rescan worker starts, and calls rescan_should_stop() at the start
of its while loop, which results in 0 iterations of the loop, since
the flag BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED was cleared from fs_info->flags by
task B at step 3);
6) Task B sets fs_info->quota_root to NULL;
7) The rescan worker tries to start a transaction and uses
fs_info->quota_root as the root argument for btrfs_start_transaction().
This results in a NULL pointer dereference down the call chain of
btrfs_start_transaction(). The stack trace is something like the one
reported in Link tag below:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000041: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000208-0x000000000000020f]
CPU: 1 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 6.1.0-syzkaller-13872-gb6bb9676f216 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Workqueue: btrfs-qgroup-rescan btrfs_work_helper
RIP: 0010:start_transaction+0x48/0x10f0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:564
Code: 48 89 fb 48 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ab7ab0 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000041 RBX: 0000000000000208 RCX: ffff88801779ba80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52000156f5d
R10: fffff52000156f5d R11: 1ffff92000156f5c R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000003
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2bea75b718 CR3: 000000001d0cc000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker+0x3bb/0x6a0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3402
btrfs_work_helper+0x312/0x850 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:280
process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
So fix this by having the rescan worker function not attempt to start a
transaction if it didn't do any rescan work.
Reported-by: syzbot+96977faa68092ad382c4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/000000000000e5454b05f065a803@google.com/
Fixes: e804861bd4 ("btrfs: fix deadlock between quota disable and qgroup rescan worker")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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