Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] ocfs2: Fix uaf in ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate

From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue Aug 20 2024 - 20:14:05 EST




On 8/20/24 5:45 PM, Lizhi Xu wrote:
> In the for-loop after the 'read_failure' label, the condition
> '(bh == NULL) && flags includes OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD' is missing.
> When this contidion is true, this for-loop will call ocfs2_set_buffer
> _uptodate(ci, bh), which then triggers a NULL pointer access error.
>

Or it may simplified as the following:

When doing cleanup, if flags without OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD, it may trigger
NULL pointer dereference in the following ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate() if
bh is NULL.

> Changes from V2:
> * Make the code more concise
>

This is not the right place for changelog.

Thanks,
Joseph

> Reported-and-suggested-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c b/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> index e62c7e1de4eb..8f714406528d 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
> @@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_caching_info *ci, u64 block, int nr,
> /* Always set the buffer in the cache, even if it was
> * a forced read, or read-ahead which hasn't yet
> * completed. */
> - ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate(ci, bh);
> + if (bh)
> + ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate(ci, bh);
> }
> ocfs2_metadata_cache_io_unlock(ci);
>