Re: [PATCH] iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users

From: Qian Cai
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 20:46:56 EST


On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 05:30:33PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:30:57PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > It is trivial to trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in iomap_dio_actor() by
> > unprivileged users which would taint the kernel, or worse - panic if
> > panic_on_warn or panic_on_taint is set. Hence, just convert it to
> > pr_warn_ratelimited() to let users know their workloads are racing.
> > Thanks Dave Chinner for the initial analysis of the racing reproducers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 9 ++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > index c1aafb2ab990..6a6b4bc13269 100644
> > --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> > @@ -389,7 +389,14 @@ iomap_dio_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length,
> > case IOMAP_INLINE:
> > return iomap_dio_inline_actor(inode, pos, length, dio, iomap);
> > default:
> > - WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > + /*
> > + * DIO is not serialised against mmap() access at all, and so
> > + * if the page_mkwrite occurs between the writeback and the
> > + * iomap_apply() call in the DIO path, then it will see the
> > + * DELALLOC block that the page-mkwrite allocated.
> > + */
> > + pr_warn_ratelimited("page_mkwrite() is racing with DIO read (iomap->type = %u).\n",
> > + iomap->type);
>
> Shouldn't we log the name of triggering process and the file path? Sort
> of like what dio_warn_stale_pagecache does?

Good idea. I'll add them.