Re: [PATCH] Hold read lock in bch2_snapshot_tree_oldest_subvol()

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Sat Sep 21 2024 - 14:53:41 EST


On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 12:00:36AM GMT, Ahmed Ehab wrote:
> Syzbot reports a problem that a warning is triggered due to suspicious
> use of rcu_dereference_check(). That is triggered by a call of
> bch2_snapshot_tree_oldest_subvol().
>
> The cause of the warning is that inside
> bch2_snapshot_tree_oldest_subvol(), snapshot_t() is called which calls
> rcu_dereference() that requires a read lock to be held. Also, the call
> of bch2_snapshot_tree_next() eventually calls snapshot_t().
>
> To fix this, call rcu_read_lock() before calling snapshot_t(). Then,
> release the lock after the termination of the while loop.
>
> Reported-by: <syzbot+f7c41a878676b72c16a6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed Ehab <bottaawesome633@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c b/fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c
> index 8b18a9b483a4..678e9fdee348 100644
> --- a/fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c
> +++ b/fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> #include "errcode.h"
> #include "error.h"
> #include "fs.h"
> +#include "linux/rcupdate.h"

unnecessary, this is already pulled in - but I'll fix that nit and apply

> #include "recovery_passes.h"
> #include "snapshot.h"
>
> @@ -469,6 +470,7 @@ static u32 bch2_snapshot_tree_oldest_subvol(struct bch_fs *c, u32 snapshot_root)
> u32 id = snapshot_root;
> u32 subvol = 0, s;
>
> + rcu_read_lock();
> while (id) {
> s = snapshot_t(c, id)->subvol;
>
> @@ -477,6 +479,7 @@ static u32 bch2_snapshot_tree_oldest_subvol(struct bch_fs *c, u32 snapshot_root)
>
> id = bch2_snapshot_tree_next(c, id);
> }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
>
> return subvol;
> }
> --
> 2.46.0
>