[PATCH 5.4 08/22] btrfs: fix warning when creating a directory with smack enabled

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 08 2021 - 07:32:37 EST


From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

commit fd57a98d6f0c98fa295813087f13afb26c224e73 upstream.

When we have smack enabled, during the creation of a directory smack may
attempt to add a "smack transmute" xattr on the inode, which results in
the following warning and trace:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2548 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:537 start_transaction+0x489/0x4f0
Modules linked in: nft_objref nf_conntrack_netbios_ns (...)
CPU: 3 PID: 2548 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2smack+ #81
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:start_transaction+0x489/0x4f0
Code: e9 be fc ff ff (...)
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001887d10 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffff88816f1e0000 RBX: 0000000000000201 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000201 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff888177849000
RBP: ffff888177849000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: ffffffff825e8f7a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffffffffffe2
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88803d884270 R15: ffff8881680d8000
FS: 00007f67317b8440(0000) GS:ffff88817bcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f67247a22a8 CR3: 000000004bfbc002 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
? slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x1b0
? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0xe0
btrfs_setxattr_trans+0x3c/0xf0
__vfs_setxattr+0x63/0x80
smack_d_instantiate+0x2d3/0x360
security_d_instantiate+0x29/0x40
d_instantiate_new+0x38/0x90
btrfs_mkdir+0x1cf/0x1e0
vfs_mkdir+0x14f/0x200
do_mkdirat+0x6d/0x110
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
RIP: 0033:0x7f673196ae6b
Code: 8b 05 11 (...)
RSP: 002b:00007ffc3c679b18 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000000001ff RCX: 00007f673196ae6b
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 00007ffc3c67a30d
RBP: 00007ffc3c67a30d R08: 00000000000001ff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000055d3e39fe930 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffc3c679cd8 R14: 00007ffc3c67a30d R15: 00007ffc3c679ce0
irq event stamp: 11029
hardirqs last enabled at (11037): [<ffffffff81153fe6>] console_unlock+0x486/0x670
hardirqs last disabled at (11044): [<ffffffff81153c01>] console_unlock+0xa1/0x670
softirqs last enabled at (8864): [<ffffffff81e0102f>] asm_call_on_stack+0xf/0x20
softirqs last disabled at (8851): [<ffffffff81e0102f>] asm_call_on_stack+0xf/0x20

This happens because at btrfs_mkdir() we call d_instantiate_new() while
holding a transaction handle, which results in the following call chain:

btrfs_mkdir()
trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 5);

d_instantiate_new()
smack_d_instantiate()
__vfs_setxattr()
btrfs_setxattr_trans()
btrfs_start_transaction()
start_transaction()
WARN_ON()
--> a tansaction start has TRANS_EXTWRITERS
set in its type
h->orig_rsv = h->block_rsv
h->block_rsv = NULL

btrfs_end_transaction(trans)

Besides the warning triggered at start_transaction, we set the handle's
block_rsv to NULL which may cause some surprises later on.

So fix this by making btrfs_setxattr_trans() not start a transaction when
we already have a handle on one, stored in current->journal_info, and use
that handle. We are good to use the handle because at btrfs_mkdir() we did
reserve space for the xattr and the inode item.

Reported-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.4+
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/434d856f-bd7b-4889-a6ec-e81aaebfa735@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/xattr.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/xattr.c
@@ -227,11 +227,33 @@ int btrfs_setxattr_trans(struct inode *i
{
struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
+ const bool start_trans = (current->journal_info == NULL);
int ret;

- trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 2);
- if (IS_ERR(trans))
- return PTR_ERR(trans);
+ if (start_trans) {
+ /*
+ * 1 unit for inserting/updating/deleting the xattr
+ * 1 unit for the inode item update
+ */
+ trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 2);
+ if (IS_ERR(trans))
+ return PTR_ERR(trans);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * This can happen when smack is enabled and a directory is being
+ * created. It happens through d_instantiate_new(), which calls
+ * smack_d_instantiate(), which in turn calls __vfs_setxattr() to
+ * set the transmute xattr (XATTR_NAME_SMACKTRANSMUTE) on the
+ * inode. We have already reserved space for the xattr and inode
+ * update at btrfs_mkdir(), so just use the transaction handle.
+ * We don't join or start a transaction, as that will reset the
+ * block_rsv of the handle and trigger a warning for the start
+ * case.
+ */
+ ASSERT(strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
+ XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN) == 0);
+ trans = current->journal_info;
+ }

ret = btrfs_setxattr(trans, inode, name, value, size, flags);
if (ret)
@@ -242,7 +264,8 @@ int btrfs_setxattr_trans(struct inode *i
ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
BUG_ON(ret);
out:
- btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
+ if (start_trans)
+ btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
return ret;
}