[PATCH 01/11] netfs: Fix early put of sink folio in netfs_read_gaps()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Apr 20 01:36:52 PDT 2026


Fix netfs_read_gaps() to release the sink page it uses after waiting for
the request to complete.  The way the sink page is used is that an
ITER_BVEC-class iterator is created that has the gaps from the target folio
at either end, but has the sink page tiled over the middle so that a single
read op can fill in both gaps.

The bug was found by KASAN detecting a UAF on the generic/075 xfstest in
the cifsd kernel thread that handles reception of data from the TCP socket:

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20
 Write of size 885 at addr ffff888107f92000 by task cifsd/1285
 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1285 Comm: cifsd Not tainted 7.0.0 #6 PREEMPT(lazy)
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
  print_report+0x17f/0x4f1
  kasan_report+0x100/0x1e0
  kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
  __asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60
  _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20
  __skb_datagram_iter+0x2c9/0x430
  skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x6e/0x160
  tcp_recvmsg_locked+0xce0/0x1130
  tcp_recvmsg+0xeb/0x300
  inet_recvmsg+0xcf/0x3a0
  sock_recvmsg+0xea/0x100
  cifs_readv_from_socket+0x3a6/0x4d0 [cifs]
  cifs_read_iter_from_socket+0xdd/0x130 [cifs]
  cifs_readv_receive+0xaad/0xb10 [cifs]
  cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1148/0x1740 [cifs]
  kthread+0x1cf/0x210

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Reported-by: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
index c23173a061e8..dc50690fdd44 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
@@ -459,9 +459,6 @@ static int netfs_read_gaps(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
 
 	netfs_read_to_pagecache(rreq, NULL);
 
-	if (sink)
-		folio_put(sink);
-
 	ret = netfs_wait_for_read(rreq);
 	if (ret >= 0) {
 		folio_detach_private(folio);
@@ -471,6 +468,9 @@ static int netfs_read_gaps(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
 		flush_dcache_folio(folio);
 		folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
 	}
+
+	if (sink)
+		folio_put(sink);
 	folio_unlock(folio);
 	netfs_put_request(rreq, netfs_rreq_trace_put_return);
 	return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;




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