[PATCH 5.2 299/313] xfs: Fix stale data exposure when readahead races with hole punch

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 13:06:56 EST


From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

commit 40144e49ff84c3bd6bd091b58115257670be8803 upstream.

Hole puching currently evicts pages from page cache and then goes on to
remove blocks from the inode. This happens under both XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL
and XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL which provides appropriate serialization with
racing reads or page faults. However there is currently nothing that
prevents readahead triggered by fadvise() or madvise() from racing with
the hole punch and instantiating page cache page after hole punching has
evicted page cache in xfs_flush_unmap_range() but before it has removed
blocks from the inode. This page cache page will be mapping soon to be
freed block and that can lead to returning stale data to userspace or
even filesystem corruption.

Fix the problem by protecting handling of readahead requests by
XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED similarly as we protect reads.

CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxjQNmxqmtA_VbYW0Su9rKRk2zobJmahcyeaEVOFKVQ5dw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <linux/fadvise.h>

static const struct vm_operations_struct xfs_file_vm_ops;

@@ -939,6 +940,30 @@ out_unlock:
return error;
}

+STATIC int
+xfs_file_fadvise(
+ struct file *file,
+ loff_t start,
+ loff_t end,
+ int advice)
+{
+ struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(file_inode(file));
+ int ret;
+ int lockflags = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Operations creating pages in page cache need protection from hole
+ * punching and similar ops
+ */
+ if (advice == POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) {
+ lockflags = XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED;
+ xfs_ilock(ip, lockflags);
+ }
+ ret = generic_fadvise(file, start, end, advice);
+ if (lockflags)
+ xfs_iunlock(ip, lockflags);
+ return ret;
+}

STATIC loff_t
xfs_file_remap_range(
@@ -1235,6 +1260,7 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_file_op
.fsync = xfs_file_fsync,
.get_unmapped_area = thp_get_unmapped_area,
.fallocate = xfs_file_fallocate,
+ .fadvise = xfs_file_fadvise,
.remap_file_range = xfs_file_remap_range,
};