[PATCH] nilfs2: prevent general protection fault in nilfs_clear_dirty_page()

From: Ryusuke Konishi
Date: Sun Jun 11 2023 - 22:14:57 EST


In a syzbot stress test that deliberately causes file system errors on
nilfs2 with a corrupted disk image, it has been reported that
nilfs_clear_dirty_page() called from nilfs_clear_dirty_pages() can cause
a general protection fault.

In nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(), when looking up dirty pages from the page
cache and calling nilfs_clear_dirty_page() for each dirty page/folio
retrieved, the back reference from the argument page to "mapping" may have
been changed to NULL (and possibly others). It is necessary to check
this after locking the page/folio.

So, fix this issue by not calling nilfs_clear_dirty_page() on a page/folio
after locking it in nilfs_clear_dirty_pages() if the back reference
"mapping" from the page/folio is different from the "mapping" that held
the page/folio just before.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+53369d11851d8f26735c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000da4f6b05eb9bf593@xxxxxxxxxx
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/nilfs2/page.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/page.c b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
index 5cf30827f244..b4e54d079b7d 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/page.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
@@ -370,7 +370,15 @@ void nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, bool silent)
struct folio *folio = fbatch.folios[i];

folio_lock(folio);
- nilfs_clear_dirty_page(&folio->page, silent);
+
+ /*
+ * This folio may have been removed from the address
+ * space by truncation or invalidation when the lock
+ * was acquired. Skip processing in that case.
+ */
+ if (likely(folio->mapping == mapping))
+ nilfs_clear_dirty_page(&folio->page, silent);
+
folio_unlock(folio);
}
folio_batch_release(&fbatch);
--
2.34.1