[PATCH] cachefiles: Fix race between inactivating and culling a cache object

[David Howells]

There's a race between cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() and
cachefiles_cull():

 (1) cachefiles_cull() can't delete a backing file until the cache object
     is marked inactive, but as soon as that's the case it's fair game.

 (2) cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() marks the object as being inactive
     and *only then* reads the i_blocks on the backing inode - but
     cachefiles_cull() might've managed to delete it by this point.

Fix this by making sure cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() gets any data it
needs from the backing inode before deactivating the object.

Without this, the following oops may occur:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098
IP: [<ffffffffa06c5cc1>] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles]
...
CPU: 11 PID: 527 Comm: kworker/u64:4 Tainted: G          I    ------------   3.10.0-470.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Z600 Workstation/0B54h, BIOS 786G4 v03.19 03/11/2011
Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
task: ffff880035edaf10 ti: ffff8800b77c0000 task.ti: ffff8800b77c0000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa06c5cc1>] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles]
RSP: 0018:ffff8800b77c3d70  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800bf6cc400 RCX: 0000000000000034
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880090ffc710 RDI: ffff8800bf761ef8
RBP: ffff8800b77c3d88 R08: 2000000000000000 R09: 0090ffc710000000
R10: ff51005d2ff1c400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880090ffc600
R13: ffff8800bf6cc520 R14: ffff8800bf6cc400 R15: ffff8800bf6cc498
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800bb8c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 00000000019ba000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
 ffff880090ffc600 ffff8800bf6cc400 ffff8800867df140 ffff8800b77c3db0
 ffffffffa06c48cb ffff880090ffc600 ffff880090ffc180 ffff880090ffc658
 ffff8800b77c3df0 ffffffffa085d846 ffff8800a96b8150 ffff880090ffc600
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa06c48cb>] cachefiles_drop_object+0x6b/0xf0 [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffffa085d846>] fscache_drop_object+0xd6/0x1e0 [fscache]
 [<ffffffffa085d615>] fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
 [<ffffffff810a605b>] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
 [<ffffffff810a6e96>] worker_thread+0x126/0x410
 [<ffffffff810a6d70>] ? rescuer_thread+0x460/0x460
 [<ffffffff810ae64f>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
 [<ffffffff810ae580>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
 [<ffffffff81695418>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
 [<ffffffff810ae580>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

The oopsing code shows:

	callq  0xffffffff810af6a0 <wake_up_bit>
	mov    0xf8(%r12),%rax
	mov    0x30(%rax),%rax
	mov    0x98(%rax),%rax   <---- oops here
	lock add %rax,0x130(%rbx)

where this is:

	d_backing_inode(object->dentry)->i_blocks

Reported-by: Jianhong Yin <jiyin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/cachefiles/namei.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 4ae75006e73b..3f7c2cd41f8f 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ requeue:
 void cachefiles_mark_object_inactive(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 				     struct cachefiles_object *object)
 {
+	blkcnt_t i_blocks = d_backing_inode(object->dentry)->i_blocks;
+
 	write_lock(&cache->active_lock);
 	rb_erase(&object->active_node, &cache->active_nodes);
 	clear_bit(CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE, &object->flags);
@@ -273,8 +275,7 @@ void cachefiles_mark_object_inactive(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 	/* This object can now be culled, so we need to let the daemon know
 	 * that there is something it can remove if it needs to.
 	 */
-	atomic_long_add(d_backing_inode(object->dentry)->i_blocks,
-			&cache->b_released);
+	atomic_long_add(i_blocks, &cache->b_released);
 	if (atomic_inc_return(&cache->f_released))
 		cachefiles_state_changed(cache);
 }