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    ext2: fix filesystem deadlock while reading corrupted xattr block · ff0031d8
    Carlos Maiolino authored
    
    
    This bug can be reproducible with fsfuzzer, although, I couldn't reproduce it
    100% of my tries, it is quite easily reproducible.
    
    During the deletion of an inode, ext2_xattr_delete_inode() does not check if the
    block pointed by EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl is a valid data block, this might
    lead to a deadlock, when i_file_acl == 1, and the filesystem block size is 1024.
    
    In that situation, ext2_xattr_delete_inode, will load the superblock's buffer
    head (instead of a valid i_file_acl block), and then lock that buffer head,
    which, ext2_sync_super will also try to lock, making the filesystem deadlock in
    the following stack trace:
    
    root     17180  0.0  0.0 113660   660 pts/0    D+   07:08   0:00 rmdir
    /media/test/dir1
    
    [<ffffffff8125da9f>] __sync_dirty_buffer+0xaf/0x100
    [<ffffffff8125db03>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x13/0x20
    [<ffffffffa03f0d57>] ext2_sync_super+0xb7/0xc0 [ext2]
    [<ffffffffa03f10b9>] ext2_error+0x119/0x130 [ext2]
    [<ffffffffa03e9d93>] ext2_free_blocks+0x83/0x350 [ext2]
    [<ffffffffa03f3d03>] ext2_xattr_delete_inode+0x173/0x190 [ext2]
    [<ffffffffa03ee9e9>] ext2_evict_inode+0xc9/0x130 [ext2]
    [<ffffffff8123fd23>] evict+0xb3/0x180
    [<ffffffff81240008>] iput+0x1b8/0x240
    [<ffffffff8123c4ac>] d_delete+0x11c/0x150
    [<ffffffff8122fa7e>] vfs_rmdir+0xfe/0x120
    [<ffffffff812340ee>] do_rmdir+0x17e/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff81234dd6>] SyS_rmdir+0x16/0x20
    [<ffffffff81838cf2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
    
    Fix this by using the same approach ext4 uses to test data blocks validity,
    implementing ext2_data_block_valid.
    
    An another possibility when the superblock is very corrupted, is that i_file_acl
    is 1, block_count is 1 and first_data_block is 0. For such situations, we might
    have i_file_acl pointing to a 'valid' block, but still step over the superblock.
    The approach I used was to also test if the superblock is not in the range
    described by ext2_data_block_valid() arguments
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCarlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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