Subject: CVE-2024-46734: btrfs: fix race between direct IO write and fsync when using same fd

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix race between direct IO write and fsync when using same fd

If we have 2 threads that are using the same file descriptor and one of
them is doing direct IO writes while the other is doing fsync, we have a
race where we can end up either:

1) Attempt a fsync without holding the inode's lock, triggering an
   assertion failures when assertions are enabled;

2) Do an invalid memory access from the fsync task because the file private
   points to memory allocated on stack by the direct IO task and it may be
   used by the fsync task after the stack was destroyed.

The race happens like this:

1) A user space program opens a file descriptor with O_DIRECT;

2) The program spawns 2 threads using libpthread for example;

3) One of the threads uses the file descriptor to do direct IO writes,
   while the other calls fsync using the same file descriptor.

4) Call task A the thread doing direct IO writes and task B the thread
   doing fsyncs;

5) Task A does a direct IO write, and at btrfs_direct_write() sets the
   file's private to an on stack allocated private with the member
   'fsync_skip_inode_lock' set to true;

6) Task B enters btrfs_sync_file() and sees that there's a private
   structure associated to the file which has 'fsync_skip_inode_lock' set
   to true, so it skips locking the inode's VFS lock;

7) Task A completes the direct IO write, and resets the file's private to
   NULL since it had no prior private and our private was stack allocated.
   Then it unlocks the inode's VFS lock;

8) Task B enters btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging(), then the
   assertion that checks the inode's VFS lock is held fails, since task B
   never locked it and task A has already unlocked it.

The stack trace produced is the following:

   assertion failed: inode_is_locked(&inode->vfs_inode), in fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c:983
   ------------[ cut here ]------------
   kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c:983!
   Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
   CPU: 9 PID: 5072 Comm: worker Tainted: G     U     OE      6.10.5-1-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 69f48d427608e1c09e60ea24c6c55e2ca1b049e8
   Hardware name: Acer Predator PH315-52/Covini_CFS, BIOS V1.12 07/28/2020
   RIP: 0010:btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs]
   Code: 50 d6 86 c0 e8 (...)
   RSP: 0018:ffff9e4a03dcfc78 EFLAGS: 00010246
   RAX: 0000000000000054 RBX: ffff9078a9868e98 RCX: 0000000000000000
   RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff907dce4a7800 RDI: ffff907dce4a7800
   RBP: ffff907805518800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff9e4a03dcfb38
   R10: ffff9e4a03dcfb30 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff907684ae7800
   R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff90774646b600 R15: 0000000000000000
   FS:  00007f04b96006c0(0000) GS:ffff907dce480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
   CR2: 00007f32acbfc000 CR3: 00000001fd4fa005 CR4: 00000000003726f0
   Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    ? __die_body.cold+0x14/0x24
    ? die+0x2e/0x50
    ? do_trap+0xca/0x110
    ? do_error_trap+0x6a/0x90
    ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a]
    ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70
    ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a]
    ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
    ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a]
    ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a]
    btrfs_sync_file+0x21a/0x4d0 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a]
    ? __seccomp_filter+0x31d/0x4f0
    __x64_sys_fdatasync+0x4f/0x90
    do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160
    ? do_futex+0xcb/0x190
    ? __x64_sys_futex+0x10e/0x1d0
    ? switch_fpu_return+0x4f/0xd0
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x72/0x220
    ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x72/0x220
    ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x72/0x220
    ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x72/0x220
    ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Another problem here is if task B grabs the private pointer and then uses
it after task A has finished, since the private was allocated in the stack
of task A, it results in some invalid memory access with a hard to predict
result.

This issue, triggering the assertion, was observed with QEMU workloads by
two users in the Link tags below.

Fix this by not relying on a file's private to pass information to fsync
that it should skip locking the inode and instead pass this information
through a special value stored in current->journal_info. This is safe
because in the relevant section of the direct IO write path we are not
holding a transaction handle, so current->journal_info is NULL.

The following C program triggers the issue:

   $ cat repro.c
   /* Get the O_DIRECT definition. */
   #ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
   #define _GNU_SOURCE
   #endif

   #include <stdio.h>
   #include <stdlib.h>
   #include <unistd.h>
   #include <stdint.h>
   #include <fcntl.h>
   #include <errno.h>
   #include <string.h>
   #include <pthread.h>

   static int fd;

   static ssize_t do_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset)
   {
       while (count > 0) {
           ssize_t ret;

           ret = pwrite(fd, buf, count, offset);
           if (ret < 0) {
               if (errno == EINTR)
                   continue;
               return ret;
           }
           count -= ret;
           buf += ret;
       }
       return 0;
   }

   static void *fsync_loop(void *arg)
   {
       while (1) {
           int ret;

           ret = fsync(fd);
           if (ret != 0) {
               perror("Fsync failed");
               exit(6);
           }
       }
   }

   int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   {
       long pagesize;
       void *write_buf;
       pthread_t fsyncer;
       int ret;

       if (argc != 2) {
           fprintf(stderr, "Use: %s <file path>\n", argv[0]);
           return 1;
       }

       fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_DIRECT, 0666);
       if (fd == -1) {
           perror("Failed to open/create file");
           return 1;
       }

       pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
       if (pagesize == -1) {
           perror("Failed to get page size");
           return 2;
       }

       ret = posix_memalign(&write_buf, pagesize, pagesize);
       if (ret) {
           perror("Failed to allocate buffer");
           return 3;
       }

       ret = pthread_create(&fsyncer, NULL, fsync_loop, NULL);
       if (ret != 0) {
           fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create writer thread: %d\n", ret);
           return 4;
       }

       while (1) {
           ret = do_write(fd, write_buf, pagesize, 0);
           if (ret != 0) {
               perror("Write failed");
               exit(5);
           }
       }

       return 0;
   }

   $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdi
   $ mount /dev/sdi /mnt/sdi
   $ timeout 10 ./repro /mnt/sdi/foo

Usually the race is triggered within less than 1 second. A test case for
fstests will follow soon.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-46734 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.15.165 with commit 4e17707035a6 and fixed in 5.15.167 with commit d116a0b0e02f
	Issue introduced in 6.1.105 with commit 6cae8d04d8b3 and fixed in 6.1.110 with commit cd3087582e4f
	Issue introduced in 6.6.46 with commit 0a108bde616a and fixed in 6.6.51 with commit 7b5595f33c3c
	Issue introduced in 6.10.5 with commit 3831170f7406 and fixed in 6.10.10 with commit 01681aa609b5

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-46734
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/btrfs/ctree.h
	fs/btrfs/direct-io.c
	fs/btrfs/file.c
	fs/btrfs/transaction.h

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d116a0b0e02f395cedfb8c725bd67480aa7c428c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd3087582e4fa36e89be4e6f859e75a4400292b4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b5595f33c3c273613b590892a578d78186bb400
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01681aa609b5f110502f56c4e3b2938efcf4a5bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd9253c23aedd61eb5ff11f37a36247cd46faf86