ext4 CVE-2014-8086

Hi Greg,

The following patch commit a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b

ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl

fix CVE-2014-8086 in upstream kernel. I wish you could merge this fix into stable 3.10. Since refactoring in ext4, the sending patch is quite different from the patch in upstream kernel.

Since ext4_file_dio_write() is not moved into ext4_file_write() (commit 8ad2850f), we should adjust 'overwrite' in ext4_file_write() to apply iocb->private which is initialized in upper function. Seems initializing iocb->private again is acceptable, but is not good for readability.

From: Dmitry Monakhov <[email protected]>

commit a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b upstream.

O_DIRECT flags can be toggeled via fcntl(F_SETFL). But this value checked twice inside ext4_file_write_iter() and __generic_file_write() which result in BUG_ON inside ext4_direct_IO.

Let's initialize iocb->private unconditionally.

TESTCASE: xfstest:generic/036 https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/402445/

#TYPICAL STACK TRACE:
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2960!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

Modules linked in: brd iTCO_wdt lpc_ich mfd_core igb ptp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
CPU: 6 PID: 5505 Comm: aio-dio-fcntl-r Not tainted 3.17.0-rc2-00176-gff5c017 #161
Hardware name: Intel Corporation W2600CR/W2600CR, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x028.061320111235 06/13/2011
task: ffff88080e95a7c0 ti: ffff88080f908000 task.ti: ffff88080f908000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811fabf2>]  [<ffffffff811fabf2>] ext4_direct_IO+0x162/0x3d0
RSP: 0018:ffff88080f90bb58  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000400 RBX: ffff88080fdb2a28 RCX: 00000000a802c818
RDX: 0000040000080000 RSI: ffff88080d8aeb80 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88080f90bbc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000001581
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88080d8aeb80
R13: ffff88080f90bbf8 R14: ffff88080fdb28c8 R15: ffff88080fdb2a28
FS:  00007f23b2055700(0000) GS:ffff880818400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f23b2045000 CR3: 000000080cedf000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
Stack:
 ffff88080f90bb98 0000000000000000 7ffffffffffffffe ffff88080fdb2c30
 0000000000000200 0000000000000200 0000000000000001 0000000000000200
 ffff88080f90bbc8 ffff88080fdb2c30 ffff88080f90be08 0000000000000200
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8112ca9d>] generic_file_direct_write+0xed/0x180
 [<ffffffff8112f2b2>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x222/0x370
 [<ffffffff811f495b>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x34b/0x400
 [<ffffffff811bd709>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x239/0x410
 [<ffffffff811bd709>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x239/0x410
 [<ffffffff810990e5>] ? local_clock+0x25/0x30
 [<ffffffff810abd94>] ? __lock_acquire+0x274/0x700
 [<ffffffff811f4610>] ? ext4_unwritten_wait+0xb0/0xb0
 [<ffffffff811bd756>] aio_run_iocb+0x286/0x410
 [<ffffffff810990e5>] ? local_clock+0x25/0x30
 [<ffffffff810ac359>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x29/0x190
 [<ffffffff811bc05b>] ? lookup_ioctx+0x4b/0xf0
 [<ffffffff811bde3b>] do_io_submit+0x55b/0x740
 [<ffffffff811bdcaa>] ? do_io_submit+0x3ca/0x740
 [<ffffffff811be030>] SyS_io_submit+0x10/0x20
 [<ffffffff815ce192>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 01 48 8b 80 f0 01 00 00 48 8b 18 49 8b 45 10 0f 85 f1 01 00 00 48 03 45 c8 48 3b 43 48 0f 8f e3 01 00 00 49 83 7c

24 18 00 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe f0 ff 83 ec 01 00 00 49 8b 44 24 18 8b 00 85 c0 89 RIP [<ffffffff811fabf2>] ext4_direct_IO+0x162/0x3d0
RSP <ffff88080f90bb58>

[hujianyang: Backported to 3.10
- Move initialization of iocb->private to ext4_file_write() as we don't have ext4_file_write_iter(), which is introduced by commit 9b884164.
- Adjust context to make 'overwrite' changes apply to ext4_file_dio_write() as ext4_file_dio_write() is not move into ext4_file_write()]

---
 fs/ext4/file.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

index 4635788..ec9770f 100644
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ ext4_file_dio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 	int unaligned_aio = 0;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	int overwrite = 0;
+	int *overwrite = iocb->private;
 	size_t length = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS) &&

@@ -118,8 +118,6 @@ ext4_file_dio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 
-	iocb->private = &overwrite;
-
 	/* check whether we do a DIO overwrite or not */
 	if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode) && !unaligned_aio &&
 	    !file->f_mapping->nrpages && pos + length <= i_size_read(inode)) {

@@ -143,7 +141,7 @@ ext4_file_dio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		 * So we should check these two conditions.
 		 */
 		if (err == len && (map.m_flags & EXT4_MAP_MAPPED))
-			overwrite = 1;
+			*overwrite = 1;
 	}
 
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);

@@ -170,6 +168,7 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
 	ssize_t ret;
+	int overwrite = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit

@@ -190,6 +189,7 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		}
 	}
 
+	iocb->private = &overwrite;
 	if (unlikely(iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ret = ext4_file_dio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	else

1.6.0.2

Before I do that, can you also provide a backport to the 3.14-stable kernel tree so that we don't have that tree missing this?

thanks,

greg k-h

Nevermind, I took this patch for 3.14 as your backport worked there as well.

thanks,

greg k-h