[PATCH 5.10 043/299] btrfs: handle remount to no compress during compression

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 10 2021 - 06:56:42 EST


From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>

commit 1d8ba9e7e785b6625f4d8e978e8a284b144a7077 upstream.

[BUG]
When running btrfs/071 with inode_need_compress() removed from
compress_file_range(), we got the following crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
RIP: 0010:compress_file_range+0x476/0x7b0 [btrfs]
Call Trace:
? submit_compressed_extents+0x450/0x450 [btrfs]
async_cow_start+0x16/0x40 [btrfs]
btrfs_work_helper+0xf2/0x3e0 [btrfs]
process_one_work+0x278/0x5e0
worker_thread+0x55/0x400
? process_one_work+0x5e0/0x5e0
kthread+0x168/0x190
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
---[ end trace 65faf4eae941fa7d ]---

This is already after the patch "btrfs: inode: fix NULL pointer
dereference if inode doesn't need compression."

[CAUSE]
@pages is firstly created by kcalloc() in compress_file_extent():
pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);

Then passed to btrfs_compress_pages() to be utilized there:

ret = btrfs_compress_pages(...
pages,
&nr_pages,
...);

btrfs_compress_pages() will initialize each page as output, in
zlib_compress_pages() we have:

pages[nr_pages] = out_page;
nr_pages++;

Normally this is completely fine, but there is a special case which
is in btrfs_compress_pages() itself:

switch (type) {
default:
return -E2BIG;
}

In this case, we didn't modify @pages nor @out_pages, leaving them
untouched, then when we cleanup pages, the we can hit NULL pointer
dereference again:

if (pages) {
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
WARN_ON(pages[i]->mapping);
put_page(pages[i]);
}
...
}

Since pages[i] are all initialized to zero, and btrfs_compress_pages()
doesn't change them at all, accessing pages[i]->mapping would lead to
NULL pointer dereference.

This is not possible for current kernel, as we check
inode_need_compress() before doing pages allocation.
But if we're going to remove that inode_need_compress() in
compress_file_extent(), then it's going to be a problem.

[FIX]
When btrfs_compress_pages() hits its default case, modify @out_pages to
0 to prevent such problem from happening.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212331
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.10+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/compression.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
@@ -80,10 +80,15 @@ static int compression_compress_pages(in
case BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE:
default:
/*
- * This can't happen, the type is validated several times
- * before we get here. As a sane fallback, return what the
- * callers will understand as 'no compression happened'.
+ * This can happen when compression races with remount setting
+ * it to 'no compress', while caller doesn't call
+ * inode_need_compress() to check if we really need to
+ * compress.
+ *
+ * Not a big deal, just need to inform caller that we
+ * haven't allocated any pages yet.
*/
+ *out_pages = 0;
return -E2BIG;
}
}