[PATCH 5.6 217/254] ext4: fix a data race at inode->i_blocks

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 10:43:05 EST


From: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>

commit 28936b62e71e41600bab319f262ea9f9b1027629 upstream.

inode->i_blocks could be accessed concurrently as noticed by KCSAN,

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ext4_do_update_inode [ext4] / inode_add_bytes

write to 0xffff9a00d4b982d0 of 8 bytes by task 22100 on cpu 118:
inode_add_bytes+0x65/0xf0
__inode_add_bytes at fs/stat.c:689
(inlined by) inode_add_bytes at fs/stat.c:702
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x418/0xca0 [ext4]
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1a6b/0x27b0 [ext4]
ext4_map_blocks+0x1a9/0x950 [ext4]
_ext4_get_block+0xfc/0x270 [ext4]
ext4_get_block_unwritten+0x33/0x50 [ext4]
__block_write_begin_int+0x22e/0xae0
__block_write_begin+0x39/0x50
ext4_write_begin+0x388/0xb50 [ext4]
ext4_da_write_begin+0x35f/0x8f0 [ext4]
generic_perform_write+0x15d/0x290
ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x11f/0x210 [ext4]
ext4_file_write_iter+0xce/0x9e0 [ext4]
new_sync_write+0x29c/0x3b0
__vfs_write+0x92/0xa0
vfs_write+0x103/0x260
ksys_write+0x9d/0x130
__x64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60
do_syscall_64+0x91/0xb05
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

read to 0xffff9a00d4b982d0 of 8 bytes by task 8 on cpu 65:
ext4_do_update_inode+0x4a0/0xf60 [ext4]
ext4_inode_blocks_set at fs/ext4/inode.c:4815
ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0xaf/0x160 [ext4]
ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x129/0x3e0 [ext4]
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x253/0x2d0 [ext4]
ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec+0xc5/0x150 [ext4]
ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0x22c/0x350 [ext4]
process_one_work+0x54f/0xb90
worker_thread+0x80/0x5f0
kthread+0x1cd/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50

4 locks held by kworker/u256:0/8:
#0: ffff9a025abc4328 ((wq_completion)ext4-rsv-conversion){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x443/0xb90
#1: ffffab5a862dbe20 ((work_completion)(&ei->i_rsv_conversion_work)){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x443/0xb90
#2: ffff9a025a9d0f58 (jbd2_handle){++++}, at: start_this_handle+0x1c1/0x9d0 [jbd2]
#3: ffff9a00d4b985d8 (&(&ei->i_raw_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: ext4_do_update_inode+0xaa/0xf60 [ext4]
irq event stamp: 3009267
hardirqs last enabled at (3009267): [<ffffffff980da9b7>] __find_get_block+0x107/0x790
hardirqs last disabled at (3009266): [<ffffffff980da8f9>] __find_get_block+0x49/0x790
softirqs last enabled at (3009230): [<ffffffff98a0034c>] __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c
softirqs last disabled at (3009223): [<ffffffff97cc67a2>] irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 65 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/u256:0 Tainted: G L 5.6.0-rc2-next-20200221+ #7
Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019
Workqueue: ext4-rsv-conversion ext4_end_io_rsv_work [ext4]

The plain read is outside of inode->i_lock critical section which
results in a data race. Fix it by adding READ_ONCE() there.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222043258.2279-1-cai@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4812,7 +4812,7 @@ static int ext4_inode_blocks_set(handle_
struct ext4_inode_info *ei)
{
struct inode *inode = &(ei->vfs_inode);
- u64 i_blocks = inode->i_blocks;
+ u64 i_blocks = READ_ONCE(inode->i_blocks);
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;

if (i_blocks <= ~0U) {