[PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix bug_on in __es_tree_search caused by wrong boot loader inode

From: Baokun Li
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 07:15:27 EST


We got a issue as fllows:
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kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:203!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 945 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.0.0-next-20221007-dirty #349
RIP: 0010:ext4_es_end.isra.0+0x34/0x42
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000143b768 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881769cd0b8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8fc27cf7 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffff8881769cd0bc R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000143b5f8
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8881769cd0a0
R13: ffff8881768e5668 R14: 00000000768e52f0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f359f7f05c0(0000)GS:ffff88842fd00000(0000)knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f359f5a2000 CR3: 000000017130c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__es_tree_search.isra.0+0x6d/0xf5
ext4_es_cache_extent+0xfa/0x230
ext4_cache_extents+0xd2/0x110
ext4_find_extent+0x5d5/0x8c0
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x9c/0x1d30
ext4_map_blocks+0x431/0xa50
ext4_mpage_readpages+0x48e/0xe40
ext4_readahead+0x47/0x50
read_pages+0x82/0x530
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x199/0x2a0
do_page_cache_ra+0x47/0x70
page_cache_ra_order+0x242/0x400
ondemand_readahead+0x1e8/0x4b0
page_cache_sync_ra+0xf4/0x110
filemap_get_pages+0x131/0xb20
filemap_read+0xda/0x4b0
generic_file_read_iter+0x13a/0x250
ext4_file_read_iter+0x59/0x1d0
vfs_read+0x28f/0x460
ksys_read+0x73/0x160
__x64_sys_read+0x1e/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
</TASK>
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In the above issue, ioctl invokes the swap_inode_boot_loader function to
swap inode<5> and inode<12>. However, inode<5> contain incorrect imode and
disordered extents, and i_nlink is set to 1. The extents check for inode in
the ext4_iget function can be bypassed bacause 5 is EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO.
While links_count is set to 1, the extents are not initialized in
swap_inode_boot_loader. After the ioctl command is executed successfully,
the extents are swapped to inode<12>, in this case, run the `cat` command
to view inode<12>. And Bug_ON is triggered due to the incorrect extents.

When the boot loader inode is not initialized, it is marked as bad_inode
in ext4_iget because imode is abnormal. After initialization, imode is set
to S_IFREG. In this case, the ext4_ext_check_inode function is used for
check, and no issue is triggered. Therefore, we can determine whether an
inode needs to be initialized by checking whether the boot loader inode is
a bad inode instead of i_nlink.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index ded535535b27..82b54f73f089 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static long swap_inode_boot_loader(struct super_block *sb,
/* Protect extent tree against block allocations via delalloc */
ext4_double_down_write_data_sem(inode, inode_bl);

- if (inode_bl->i_nlink == 0) {
+ if (is_bad_inode(inode_bl)) {
/* this inode has never been used as a BOOT_LOADER */
set_nlink(inode_bl, 1);
i_uid_write(inode_bl, 0);
--
2.31.1