Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested during unmount

[Joseph Qi]

On 5/8/26 2:01 PM, Jiakai Xu wrote:
> A race condition exists between filesystem unmount and inode permission
> operations. When ocfs2_dismount_volume() frees the ocfs2_super (osb)
> structure, concurrent access via OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb) in
> ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested() can dereference freed memory, causing a
> page fault in __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath via
> ocfs2_is_hard_readonly() -> spin_lock(&osb->osb_lock).
> 
> Fix this with two changes:
> 
> 1. In ocfs2_dismount_volume(): set sb->s_fs_info = NULL before
>    kfree(osb), so OCFS2_SB() returns NULL instead of a dangling pointer
>    during the teardown race window.
> 
> 2. In ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested(): add a NULL check on osb after
>    OCFS2_SB(), returning -EIO if the superblock info is already gone.
>    This ensures the crash path is handled gracefully when the
>    filesystem is being torn down.
> 

It seems this is not enough, or TOCTOU still exists. Say:

Thread A			Thread B
osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb)
				ocfs2_dismount_volume()
				-> sb->s_fs_info = NULL
				-> kfree(osb)
use freed osb

BTW, how did you find this issue?

Joseph

> Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: ccd979bdbce9f ("OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem")
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 3 +++
>  fs/ocfs2/super.c   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> index 7283bb2c5a31..cd619958a0a2 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> @@ -2435,6 +2435,9 @@ int ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested(struct inode *inode,
>  	struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb);
>  	struct buffer_head *local_bh = NULL;
>  
> +	if (!osb)
> +		return -EIO;
> +
>  	mlog(0, "inode %llu, take %s META lock\n",
>  	     (unsigned long long)OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno,
>  	     ex ? "EXMODE" : "PRMODE");
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> index b875f01c9756..3fd56638e4f0 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> @@ -1881,10 +1881,10 @@ static void ocfs2_dismount_volume(struct super_block *sb, int mnt_err)
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "ocfs2: Unmounting device (%s) on (node %s)\n",
>  	       osb->dev_str, nodestr);
>  
> +	sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
>  	ocfs2_delete_osb(osb);
>  	kfree(osb);
>  	sb->s_dev = 0;
> -	sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static int ocfs2_setup_osb_uuid(struct ocfs2_super *osb, const unsigned char *uuid,