[PATCH 4.4 41/56] bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 03:40:52 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

commit b8b784958eccbf8f51ebeee65282ca3fd59ea391 upstream.

Syzbot has reported that it can hit a NULL pointer dereference in
wb_workfn() due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. This indicates that
wb_workfn() was called for an already unregistered bdi which should not
happen as wb_shutdown() called from bdi_unregister() should make sure
all pending writeback works are completed before bdi is unregistered.
Except that wb_workfn() itself can requeue the work with:

mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0);

and if this happens while wb_shutdown() is waiting in:

flush_delayed_work(&wb->dwork);

the dwork can get executed after wb_shutdown() has finished and
bdi_unregister() has cleared wb->bdi->dev.

Make wb_workfn() use wakeup_wb() for requeueing the work which takes all
the necessary precautions against racing with bdi unregistration.

CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+9873874c735f2892e7e9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
}

if (!list_empty(&wb->work_list))
- mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0);
+ wb_wakeup(wb);
else if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval)
wb_wakeup_delayed(wb);