[PATCH] netfs: Fix AIO error handling when doing write-through

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Tue May 21 06:36:27 PDT 2024


If an error occurs whilst we're doing an AIO write in write-through mode,
we may end up calling ->ki_complete() *and* returning an error from
->write_iter().  This can result in either a UAF (the ->ki_complete() func
pointer may get overwritten, for example) or a refcount underflow in
io_submit() as ->ki_complete is called twice.

Fix this by making netfs_end_writethrough() - and thus
netfs_perform_write() - unconditionally return -EIOCBQUEUED if we're doing
an AIO write and wait for completion if we're not.

Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>
cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya at suse.de>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: v9fs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/write_issue.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
index e190043bc0da..acbfd1f5ee9d 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
@@ -636,7 +636,12 @@ int netfs_end_writethrough(struct netfs_io_request *wreq, struct writeback_contr
 
 	mutex_unlock(&ictx->wb_lock);
 
-	ret = wreq->error;
+	if (wreq->iocb) {
+		ret = -EIOCBQUEUED;
+	} else {
+		wait_on_bit(&wreq->flags, NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+		ret = wreq->error;
+	}
 	netfs_put_request(wreq, false, netfs_rreq_trace_put_return);
 	return ret;
 }




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