Re: [PATCH 5.15 056/917] fuse: fix page stealing

[Justin Forbes]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 7:04 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 712a951025c0667ff00b25afc360f74e639dfabe upstream.
>
> It is possible to trigger a crash by splicing anon pipe bufs to the fuse
> device.
>
> The reason for this is that anon_pipe_buf_release() will reuse buf->page if
> the refcount is 1, but that page might have already been stolen and its
> flags modified (e.g. PG_lru added).
>
> This happens in the unlikely case of fuse_dev_splice_write() getting around
> to calling pipe_buf_release() after a page has been stolen, added to the
> page cache and removed from the page cache.
>
> Fix by calling pipe_buf_release() right after the page was inserted into
> the page cache.  In this case the page has an elevated refcount so any
> release function will know that the page isn't reusable.
>
> Reported-by: Frank Dinoff <fdinoff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAAmZXrsGg2xsP1CK+cbuEMumtrqdvD-NKnWzhNcvn71RV3c1yw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: dd3bb14f44a6 ("fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v2.6.35
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It appears this patch causes a rather serious regression in flatpacks
using portals to access files.  Reverting this patch restores expected
behavior. I have asked users in the Fedora bug to test with 5.16-rc2
to see if we are just missing a dependent patch in stable, or if this
is broken there as well, but no response yet.:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025285
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4595

Justin


Justin