Re: [PATCH] iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 20:30:46 EST


On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:30:57PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> It is trivial to trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in iomap_dio_actor() by
> unprivileged users which would taint the kernel, or worse - panic if
> panic_on_warn or panic_on_taint is set. Hence, just convert it to
> pr_warn_ratelimited() to let users know their workloads are racing.
> Thanks Dave Chinner for the initial analysis of the racing reproducers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> index c1aafb2ab990..6a6b4bc13269 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> @@ -389,7 +389,14 @@ iomap_dio_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length,
> case IOMAP_INLINE:
> return iomap_dio_inline_actor(inode, pos, length, dio, iomap);
> default:
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + /*
> + * DIO is not serialised against mmap() access at all, and so
> + * if the page_mkwrite occurs between the writeback and the
> + * iomap_apply() call in the DIO path, then it will see the
> + * DELALLOC block that the page-mkwrite allocated.
> + */
> + pr_warn_ratelimited("page_mkwrite() is racing with DIO read (iomap->type = %u).\n",
> + iomap->type);

Shouldn't we log the name of triggering process and the file path? Sort
of like what dio_warn_stale_pagecache does?

--D

> return -EIO;
> }
> }
> --
> 2.18.4
>