Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: fix use-after-free when unmounting read-only filesystem

From: Luís Henriques
Date: Mon May 22 2023 - 08:25:55 EST


Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 5/22/23 6:25 PM, Luís Henriques wrote:
>> It's trivial to trigger a use-after-free bug in the ocfs2 quotas code using
>> fstest generic/452. After mounting a filesystem as read-only, quotas are
>
> generic/452 is for testing ext4 mounted with dax and ro.
> But ocfs2 doesn't support dax yet.

Right, but I think it's still useful to run the 'generic' test-suite in a
filesystem. We can always find issues in the test itself or, in this
case, a bug in the filesystem.

>> suspended and ocfs2_mem_dqinfo is freed through ->ocfs2_local_free_info(). When
>> unmounting the filesystem, an UAF access to the oinfo will eventually cause a
>> crash.
>
> In ocfs2_fill_super(), it won't enable quota if is a readonly mount.
> Do you mean remount as readonly?

Yes, sorry. Instead of "mounting", the patch changelog should say

"After remounting a filesystem as read-only..."

Cheers,
--
Luís

>
> Thanks,
> Joseph
>
>>
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/ocfs2/super.c | 6 ++++--
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> index 0b0e6a132101..988d1c076861 100644
>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> @@ -952,8 +952,10 @@ static void ocfs2_disable_quotas(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
>> for (type = 0; type < OCFS2_MAXQUOTAS; type++) {
>> if (!sb_has_quota_loaded(sb, type))
>> continue;
>> - oinfo = sb_dqinfo(sb, type)->dqi_priv;
>> - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&oinfo->dqi_sync_work);
>> + if (!sb_has_quota_suspended(sb, type)) {
>> + oinfo = sb_dqinfo(sb, type)->dqi_priv;
>> + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&oinfo->dqi_sync_work);
>> + }
>> inode = igrab(sb->s_dquot.files[type]);
>> /* Turn off quotas. This will remove all dquot structures from
>> * memory and so they will be automatically synced to global