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authorZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>2022-06-29 19:26:47 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-01-07 11:11:59 +0100
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ext4: check and assert if marking an no_delete evicting inode dirty
commit 318cdc822c63b6e2befcfdc2088378ae6fa18def upstream. In ext4_evict_inode(), if we evicting an inode in the 'no_delete' path, it cannot be raced by another mark_inode_dirty(). If it happens, someone else may accidentally dirty it without holding inode refcount and probably cause use-after-free issues in the writeback procedure. It's indiscoverable and hard to debug, so add an WARN_ON_ONCE() to check and detect this issue in advance. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629112647.4141034-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index f53c67909af5..181bc161b1ac 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -335,6 +335,12 @@ stop_handle:
ext4_xattr_inode_array_free(ea_inode_array);
return;
no_delete:
+ /*
+ * Check out some where else accidentally dirty the evicting inode,
+ * which may probably cause inode use-after-free issues later.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list));
+
if (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_fc_list))
ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(inode->i_sb, EXT4_FC_REASON_NOMEM, NULL);
ext4_clear_inode(inode); /* We must guarantee clearing of inode... */