Re: general protection fault in sock_close

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:48:13PM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> syzbot found the following issue on:
> 
> HEAD commit:    15bc20c6 Merge tag 'tty-5.9-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/p..
> git tree:       upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16a85669900000
> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=891ca5711a9f1650
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e24baf53dc389927a7c3
> compiler:       clang version 10.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/ c2443155a0fb245c8f17f2c1c72b6ea391e86e81)
> syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=127d3c99900000

> The issue was bisected to:
> 
> commit a9ed4a6560b8562b7e2e2bed9527e88001f7b682
> Author: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Aug 19 16:12:17 2020 +0000
> 
>     epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list

All of those are essentially duplicates.

The minimal fix is below; I'm not happy with it long-term, but I'm still
digging through the eventpoll locking, and there's a good chance that this
is the least intrusive variant for -stable.  Folks, could you check if the
following patch fixes those suckers?  Again, all reports bisected to that
commit are essentially the same.

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index e0decff22ae2..8107e06d7f6f 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1995,9 +1995,9 @@ static int ep_loop_check_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
 			 * during ep_insert().
 			 */
 			if (list_empty(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink)) {
-				get_file(epi->ffd.file);
-				list_add(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink,
-					 &tfile_check_list);
+				if (get_file_rcu(epi->ffd.file))
+					list_add(&epi->ffd.file->f_tfile_llink,
+						 &tfile_check_list);
 			}
 		}
 	}