Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: Fix memory corruption by ulist_add_merge() on 32bit arch

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:01:52 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:29:46 -0400,
> Josef Bacik wrote:
> > 
> > On 07/30/2014 05:57 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:01:55 +0200,
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >>
> > >> At Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:48:41 +0200,
> > >> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> At Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:16:48 -0400,
> > >>> Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 07/28/2014 04:57 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >>>>> We've got bug reports that btrfs crashes when quota is enabled on
> > >>>>> 32bit kernel, typically with the Oops like below:
> > >>>>>    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> > >>>>>    IP: [<f9234590>] find_parent_nodes+0x360/0x1380 [btrfs]
> > >>>>>    *pde = 00000000
> > >>>>>    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > >>>>>    CPU: 0 PID: 151 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Tainted: G S      W 3.15.2-1.gd43d97e-default #1
> > >>>>>    Workqueue: btrfs-qgroup-rescan normal_work_helper [btrfs]
> > >>>>>    task: f1478130 ti: f147c000 task.ti: f147c000
> > >>>>>    EIP: 0060:[<f9234590>] EFLAGS: 00010213 CPU: 0
> > >>>>>    EIP is at find_parent_nodes+0x360/0x1380 [btrfs]
> > >>>>>    EAX: f147dda8 EBX: f147ddb0 ECX: 00000011 EDX: 00000000
> > >>>>>    ESI: 00000000 EDI: f147dda4 EBP: f147ddf8 ESP: f147dd38
> > >>>>>     DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
> > >>>>>    CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000004 CR3: 00bf3000 CR4: 00000690
> > >>>>>    Stack:
> > >>>>>     00000000 00000000 f147dda4 00000050 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000050
> > >>>>>     00000001 00000000 d3059000 00000001 00000022 000000a8 00000000 00000000
> > >>>>>     00000000 000000a1 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 11800000
> > >>>>>    Call Trace:
> > >>>>>     [<f923564d>] __btrfs_find_all_roots+0x9d/0xf0 [btrfs]
> > >>>>>     [<f9237bb1>] btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker+0x401/0x760 [btrfs]
> > >>>>>     [<f9206148>] normal_work_helper+0xc8/0x270 [btrfs]
> > >>>>>     [<c025e38b>] process_one_work+0x11b/0x390
> > >>>>>     [<c025eea1>] worker_thread+0x101/0x340
> > >>>>>     [<c026432b>] kthread+0x9b/0xb0
> > >>>>>     [<c0712a71>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x30
> > >>>>>     [<c0264290>] kthread_create_on_node+0x110/0x110
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> This indicates a NULL corruption in prefs_delayed list.  The further
> > >>>>> investigation and bisection pointed that the call of ulist_add_merge()
> > >>>>> results in the corruption.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> ulist_add_merge() takes u64 as aux and writes a 64bit value into
> > >>>>> old_aux.  The callers of this function in backref.c, however, pass a
> > >>>>> pointer of a pointer to old_aux.  That is, the function overwrites
> > >>>>> 64bit value on 32bit pointer.  This caused a NULL in the adjacent
> > >>>>> variable, in this case, prefs_delayed.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Here is a quick attempt to band-aid over this: a new function,
> > >>>>> ulist_add_merge_ptr() is introduced to pass/store properly a pointer
> > >>>>> value instead of u64.  There are still ugly void ** cast remaining
> > >>>>> in the callers because void ** cannot be taken implicitly.  But, it's
> > >>>>> safer than explicit cast to u64, anyway.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Bugzilla: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id%3D887046&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=cKCbChRKsMpTX8ybrSkonQ%3D%3D%0A&m=m3qrbo6ngjqKO%2B7ofuwRfQflb9Cx%2FXrF8TKejkPjxfA%3D%0A&s=199a5b6f0ed181925e9ba2c1060fe20d1c8ad2831dd1d96cc7eddd2a343fa72b
> > >>>>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v3.11+]
> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > >>>>> ---
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Alternatively, we can change the argument of aux and old_aux to a
> > >>>>> pointer from u64, as backref.c is the only user of ulist_add_merge()
> > >>>>> function.  I'll cook up another patch if it's the preferred way.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Yeah lets just use a pointer and see how that works out.  Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Oops, I forgot that ulist_add() takes aux as u64 and it calling
> > >>> ulist_add_merge() internally.  So, we can't change the type blindly
> > >>> there, unfortunately.
> > >>
> > >> Looking back at the code, it seems that all aux arguments passed to
> > >> ulist_add() in qgroup.c are pointers, too.  So, indeed, all aux values
> > >> are pointers, so far, and it'd be even cleaner to replace all these
> > >> from u64 to void *.
> > >>
> > >> But, such a replacement patch will become difficult for backporting to
> > >> stable kernels (the bug existed since 3.11, at least).  So IMO, we
> > >> should put a smaller fix like my previous one, let it backported to
> > >> stable kernels, and do more comprehensive replacements to pointer on
> > >> its top.
> > >
> > > Ping.  Could you guys take my original patch as is, or do you prefer
> > > changing in a different way?  If so, how?
> > >
> > 
> > I don't care how hard it is to backport to stable,
> 
> You must do care as a maintainer.  It's a long-standing and serious
> bug since 3.11.  The kernel hangs up immediately when you enable quota 
> on 32bit kernel.  And it's really hard to revert it when the rootfs is
> btrfs.  (The mount follows the immediate hang up after reboot.)
> 
> > since we're using pointers
> > everywhere just change it to void * and be done with it.  Thanks,
> 
> Fix it quickly, then do cleanup.  This is the golden rule for
> regression :)

Also, another question is whether you guys are OK to change the type
to a pointer.  Through a glance, the ulist code was intended to handle
any generic data, thus it uses u64, right?  Using void pointer breaks
this concept.


Takashi
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