Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_free_blocks

From: Lukas Czerner
Date: Thu Jul 14 2022 - 08:24:18 EST


On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > Syzbot reported a BUG in ext4_free_blocks.
> > The issue is triggered from ext4_mb_clear_bb(). What happens is the
> > block number passed to ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() is 0 and the
> > es->s_first_data_block is 1. This makes block group number returned
> > from ext4_get_group_no_and_offset equal to -1. This is then passed to
> > ext4_get_group_info() and hits a BUG:
> > BUG_ON(group >= EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count),
> > what can be seen in the trace below.
> > This patch adds an assertion to ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() that
> > checks if block number is not smaller than es->s_first_data_block.
> >
> > kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319!
> > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> > CPU: 0 PID: 337 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6-00105-g4e8e898e4107-dirty #14
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014
> > RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_clear_bb+0x1bd6/0x1be0
> > Call Trace:
> > <TASK>
> > ext4_free_blocks+0x9b3/0xc90
> > ext4_clear_blocks+0x344/0x3b0
> > ext4_ind_truncate+0x967/0x1050
> > ext4_truncate+0xb1b/0x1210
> > ext4_evict_inode+0xf06/0x16f0
> > evict+0x2a3/0x630
> > iput+0x618/0x850
> > ext4_enable_quotas+0x578/0x920
> > ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x539/0x1200
> > ext4_fill_super+0x94d8/0x9bc0
> > get_tree_bdev+0x40c/0x630
> > ext4_get_tree+0x1c/0x20
> > vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x290
> > do_new_mount+0x289/0xac0
> > path_mount+0x607/0xfd0
> > __se_sys_mount+0x2c4/0x3b0
> > __x64_sys_mount+0xbf/0xd0
> > do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
> > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> > </TASK>
> >
> > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=5266d464285a03cee9dbfda7d2452a72c3c2ae7c
> > Reported-by: syzbot+15cd994e273307bf5cfa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/ext4/balloc.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> > index 78ee3ef795ae..1175750ad05f 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> > @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ void ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t blocknr,
> > struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es;
> > ext4_grpblk_t offset;
> >
> > + if (blocknr < le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block))
> > + blocknr = le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
> > +
>
> This does not seem right. we should never work with block number smaller
> than s_first_data_block. The first 1024 bytes of the file system are
> unused and in case we have 1k block size, the entire first block is
> unused.
>
> I guess the image we work here with is corrupted, from the log it seems
> that it was noticed correctly so the question is why did we still ended
> up calling ext4_free_blocks() ? Seems like this should have been stopped
> earlier by ext4_clear_blocks() ?
>
> I did notice that in ext4_mb_clear_bb() we call
> ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() before ext4_inode_block_valid() but
> again we should have caught this problem earlier.
>
> Can you link me the file system image that generated this problem?

ok, I got the syzkaller C repro to work. The problem is that it's
bigalloc file system and the 'block' and 'count' to free in
ext4_free_blocks will get adjusted after the ext4_inode_block_valid().

We should make sure that if this happens we also clear the
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_VALIDATED. Additonally the ext4_inode_block_valid()
in ext4_mb_clear_bb() should be called *before* the values are taken for
granted. I'll prepare a patch to fix this.

-Lukas

>
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
>
>
> > blocknr = blocknr - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
> > offset = do_div(blocknr, EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) >>
> > EXT4_SB(sb)->s_cluster_bits;
> > --
> > 2.36.1
> >
>