[PATCH] nfs: fix UAF in direct writes

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Fri Mar 01 2024 - 11:49:57 EST


In production we have been hitting the following warning consistently

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refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 1800359 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
Workqueue: nfsiod nfs_direct_write_schedule_work [nfs]
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x9f/0x130
? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
? report_bug+0xcc/0x150
? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x40
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0
nfs_direct_write_schedule_work+0x237/0x250 [nfs]
process_one_work+0x12f/0x4a0
worker_thread+0x14e/0x3b0
? ZSTD_getCParams_internal+0x220/0x220
kthread+0xdc/0x120
? __btf_name_valid+0xa0/0xa0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

This is because we're completing the nfs_direct_request twice in a row.

The source of this is when we have our commit requests to submit, we
process them and send them off, and then in the completion path for the
commit requests we have

if (nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds))
nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq);

However since we're submitting asynchronous requests we sometimes have
one that completes before we submit the next one, so we end up calling
complete on the nfs_direct_request twice.

The only other place we use nfs_generic_commit_list() is in
__nfs_commit_inode, which wraps this call in a

nfs_commit_begin();
nfs_commit_end();

Which is a common pattern for this style of completion handling, one
that is also repeated in the direct code with get_dreq()/put_dreq()
calls around where we process events as well as in the completion paths.

Fix this by using the same pattern for the commit requests.

Before with my 200 node rocksdb stress running this warning would pop
every 10ish minutes. With my patch the stress test has been running for
several hours without popping.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/direct.c | 11 +++++++++--
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index befcc167e25fe..6b8798d01e3a1 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -672,10 +672,17 @@ static void nfs_direct_commit_schedule(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq)
LIST_HEAD(mds_list);

nfs_init_cinfo_from_dreq(&cinfo, dreq);
+ nfs_commit_begin(cinfo.mds);
nfs_scan_commit(dreq->inode, &mds_list, &cinfo);
res = nfs_generic_commit_list(dreq->inode, &mds_list, 0, &cinfo);
- if (res < 0) /* res == -ENOMEM */
- nfs_direct_write_reschedule(dreq);
+ if (res < 0) { /* res == -ENOMEM */
+ spin_lock(&dreq->lock);
+ if (dreq->flags == 0)
+ dreq->flags = NFS_ODIRECT_RESCHED_WRITES;
+ spin_unlock(&dreq->lock);
+ }
+ if (nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds))
+ nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq);
}

static void nfs_direct_write_clear_reqs(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 58adbb7709ba7..15359bbfa56bc 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1646,7 +1646,7 @@ static int wait_on_commit(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
!atomic_read(&cinfo->rpcs_out));
}

-static void nfs_commit_begin(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
+void nfs_commit_begin(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
{
atomic_inc(&cinfo->rpcs_out);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index f5ce7b1011461..d59116ac82099 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -611,6 +611,7 @@ int nfs_wb_folio_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio);
extern int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *, int);
extern struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void);
extern void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_commit_data *data);
+void nfs_commit_begin(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo);
bool nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo);

static inline bool nfs_have_writebacks(const struct inode *inode)
--
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