ext4: fix race writing to an inline_data file while its xattrs are changing
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:44:17 +0000 (23:44 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:36:50 +0000 (23:36 -0400)
The location of the system.data extended attribute can change whenever
xattr_sem is not taken.  So we need to recalculate the i_inline_off
field since it mgiht have changed between ext4_write_begin() and
ext4_write_end().

This means that caching i_inline_off is probably not helpful, so in
the long run we should probably get rid of it and shrink the in-memory
ext4 inode slightly, but let's fix the race the simple way for now.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: f19d5870cbf72 ("ext4: add normal write support for inline data")
Reported-by: syzbot+13146364637c7363a7de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inline.c

index 70cb64d..24e994e 100644 (file)
@@ -750,6 +750,12 @@ int ext4_write_inline_data_end(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
        ext4_write_lock_xattr(inode, &no_expand);
        BUG_ON(!ext4_has_inline_data(inode));
 
+       /*
+        * ei->i_inline_off may have changed since ext4_write_begin()
+        * called ext4_try_to_write_inline_data()
+        */
+       (void) ext4_find_inline_data_nolock(inode);
+
        kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
        ext4_write_inline_data(inode, &iloc, kaddr, pos, len);
        kunmap_atomic(kaddr);