[PATCH 1/4] netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Mon May 19 02:07:01 PDT 2025
Fix the resetting of the subrequest iterator in netfs_retry_write_stream()
to use the iterator-reset function as the iterator may have been shortened
by a previous retry. In such a case, the amount of data to be written by
the subrequest is not "subreq->len" but "subreq->len -
subreq->transferred".
Without this, KASAN may see an error in iov_iter_revert():
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802912a0b8 by task kworker/u32:7/1147
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1147 Comm: kworker/u32:7 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6-syzkaller-00052-g9f35e33144ae #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_write_collection_worker
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]
iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611
netfs_retry_write_stream fs/netfs/write_retry.c:44 [inline]
netfs_retry_writes+0x166d/0x1a50 fs/netfs/write_retry.c:231
netfs_collect_write_results fs/netfs/write_collect.c:352 [inline]
netfs_write_collection_worker+0x23fd/0x3830 fs/netfs/write_collect.c:374
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Fixes: cd0277ed0c18 ("netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iter")
Reported-by: syzbot+25b83a6f2c702075fcbc at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=25b83a6f2c702075fcbc
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.com>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: syzbot+25b83a6f2c702075fcbc at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
---
fs/netfs/write_retry.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
index 545d33079a77..9b1ca8b0f4dd 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
@@ -39,9 +39,10 @@ static void netfs_retry_write_stream(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
if (test_bit(NETFS_SREQ_FAILED, &subreq->flags))
break;
if (__test_and_clear_bit(NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY, &subreq->flags)) {
- struct iov_iter source = subreq->io_iter;
+ struct iov_iter source;
- iov_iter_revert(&source, subreq->len - source.count);
+ netfs_reset_iter(subreq);
+ source = subreq->io_iter;
netfs_get_subrequest(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_get_resubmit);
netfs_reissue_write(stream, subreq, &source);
}
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