[PATCH] afs: Set vllist to NULL if addr parsing fails

From: Edward Adam Davis
Date: Sun Apr 13 2025 - 02:17:56 EST


syzbot reported a bug in in afs_put_vlserverlist. [1]

Because afs_parse_text_addrs() parses incorrectly, its return value -EINVAL
is assigned to vllist, which results in -EINVAL being used as the vllist
address when afs_put_vlserverlist() is executed.

Set the vllist value to NULL when a parsing error occurs to avoid this issue.

[1]
kAFS: bad VL server IP address
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffa
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD e186067 P4D e186067 PUD e188067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5834 Comm: syz-executor362 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-syzkaller-00025-gbec7dcbc242c #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_fetch_add arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:93 [inline]
RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:949 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:401 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
RIP: 0010:refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
RIP: 0010:afs_put_vlserverlist+0x3a/0x220 fs/afs/vl_list.c:67
Code: 53 48 83 ec 18 e8 e6 35 2f fe 48 85 ed 74 43 e8 dc 35 2f fe 4c 8d 65 10 be 04 00 00 00 bb ff ff ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 76 ad 93 fe <f0> 0f c1 5d 10 31 ff 89 de e8 f8 30 2f fe 85 db 7e 29 e8 af 35 2f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003e5fae0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: ffffffff838c071a
RDX: fffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: fffffffffffffffa
RBP: ffffffffffffffea R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbffffffffff
R10: fffffffffffffffd R11: 0000000000000001 R12: fffffffffffffffa
R13: ffffffffffffffea R14: ffff8880216ad700 R15: ffff888034ec2000
FS: 0000555561d3e380(0000) GS:ffff888124ab9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffffffffffffa CR3: 000000007a922000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
afs_alloc_cell fs/afs/cell.c:218 [inline]
afs_lookup_cell+0x12a5/0x1680 fs/afs/cell.c:264
afs_cell_init+0x17a/0x380 fs/afs/cell.c:386
afs_proc_rootcell_write+0x21f/0x290 fs/afs/proc.c:247
proc_simple_write+0x114/0x1b0 fs/proc/generic.c:825
pde_write fs/proc/inode.c:330 [inline]
proc_reg_write+0x23d/0x330 fs/proc/inode.c:342
vfs_write+0x25c/0x1180 fs/read_write.c:682
ksys_write+0x12a/0x240 fs/read_write.c:736
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x260 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: e2c2cb8ef07a ("afs: Simplify cell record handling")
Reported-by: syzbot+5c042fbab0b292c98fc6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c042fbab0b292c98fc6
Tested-by: syzbot+5c042fbab0b292c98fc6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx>
---
fs/afs/cell.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 0168bbf53fe0..f31359922e98 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ static struct afs_cell *afs_alloc_cell(struct afs_net *net,
VL_SERVICE, AFS_VL_PORT);
if (IS_ERR(vllist)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(vllist);
+ vllist = NULL;
goto parse_failed;
}

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2.43.0