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[5.9,344/391] ext4: fix superblock checksum calculation race

Message ID 20201103203410.349940532@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Nov. 3, 2020, 8:36 p.m. UTC 
From: Constantine Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com>

commit acaa532687cdc3a03757defafece9c27aa667546 upstream.

The race condition could cause the persisted superblock checksum
to not match the contents of the superblock, causing the
superblock to be considered corrupt.

An example of the race follows.  A first thread is interrupted in the
middle of a checksum calculation. Then, another thread changes the
superblock, calculates a new checksum, and sets it. Then, the first
thread resumes and sets the checksum based on the older superblock.

To fix, serialize the superblock checksum calculation using the buffer
header lock. While a spinlock is sufficient, the buffer header is
already there and there is precedent for locking it (e.g. in
ext4_commit_super).

Tested the patch by booting up a kernel with the patch, creating
a filesystem and some files (including some orphans), and then
unmounting and remounting the file system.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Constantine Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914161014.22275-1-costa@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
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--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -201,7 +201,18 @@  void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct sup
 	if (!ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * Locking the superblock prevents the scenario
+	 * where:
+	 *  1) a first thread pauses during checksum calculation.
+	 *  2) a second thread updates the superblock, recalculates
+	 *     the checksum, and updates s_checksum
+	 *  3) the first thread resumes and finishes its checksum calculation
+	 *     and updates s_checksum with a potentially stale or torn value.
+	 */
+	lock_buffer(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
 	es->s_checksum = ext4_superblock_csum(sb, es);
+	unlock_buffer(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
 }
 
 ext4_fsblk_t ext4_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,