[4.4.y v2] ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to an inline file

* [4.4.y v2] ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to an inline file
@ 2018-10-11 18:51 Chenbo Feng
  2018-10-11 18:51 ` [4.9.y " Chenbo Feng
  2018-10-18 17:03 ` [4.4.y " Greg KH
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Chenbo Feng @ 2018-10-11 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: gregkh, kernel-team, Theodore Ts'o, stable, Chenbo Feng

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 8bc1379b82b8e809eef77a9fedbb75c6c297be19 upstream.

Use a separate journal transaction if it turns out that we need to
convert an inline file to use an data block.  Otherwise we could end
up failing due to not having journal credits.

This addresses CVE-2018-10883.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200071

Change-Id: Ifbe92e379f7a25fb252a2584356ccb91f902ea8f
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
[fengc@google.com: 4.4 and 4.9 backport: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h   |  3 ---
 fs/ext4/inline.c | 38 +-------------------------------------
 fs/ext4/xattr.c  | 18 ++----------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index f5d9f82b173a..b6e25d771eea 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3039,9 +3039,6 @@ extern struct buffer_head *ext4_get_first_inline_block(struct inode *inode,
 extern int ext4_inline_data_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
 				   struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
 				   int *has_inline, __u64 start, __u64 len);
-extern int ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle_t *handle,
-					 struct inode *inode,
-					 int needed);
 extern void ext4_inline_data_truncate(struct inode *inode, int *has_inline);
 
 extern int ext4_convert_inline_data(struct inode *inode);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c
index 1e7a9774119c..5ead3b0f3d34 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -888,11 +888,11 @@ retry_journal:
 	flags |= AOP_FLAG_NOFS;
 
 	if (ret == -ENOSPC) {
+		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		ret = ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent(mapping,
 							    inode,
 							    flags,
 							    fsdata);
-		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		if (ret == -ENOSPC &&
 		    ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
 			goto retry_journal;
@@ -1867,42 +1867,6 @@ out:
 	return (error < 0 ? error : 0);
 }
 
-/*
- * Called during xattr set, and if we can sparse space 'needed',
- * just create the extent tree evict the data to the outer block.
- *
- * We use jbd2 instead of page cache to move data to the 1st block
- * so that the whole transaction can be committed as a whole and
- * the data isn't lost because of the delayed page cache write.
- */
-int ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle_t *handle,
-				  struct inode *inode,
-				  int needed)
-{
-	int error;
-	struct ext4_xattr_entry *entry;
-	struct ext4_inode *raw_inode;
-	struct ext4_iloc iloc;
-
-	error = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
-	raw_inode = ext4_raw_inode(&iloc);
-	entry = (struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((void *)raw_inode +
-					    EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off);
-	if (EXT4_XATTR_LEN(entry->e_name_len) +
-	    EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size)) < needed) {
-		error = -ENOSPC;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	error = ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock(handle, inode, &iloc);
-out:
-	brelse(iloc.bh);
-	return error;
-}
-
 void ext4_inline_data_truncate(struct inode *inode, int *has_inline)
 {
 	handle_t *handle;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index b51bb73b06a6..b555b5ee0839 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1038,22 +1038,8 @@ int ext4_xattr_ibody_inline_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize == 0)
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s);
-	if (error) {
-		if (error == -ENOSPC &&
-		    ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
-			error = ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle, inode,
-					EXT4_XATTR_LEN(strlen(i->name) +
-					EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(i->value_len)));
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_ibody_find(inode, i, is);
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s);
-		}
-		if (error)
-			return error;
-	}
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 	header = IHDR(inode, ext4_raw_inode(&is->iloc));
 	if (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(s->first)) {
 		header->h_magic = cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC);
-- 
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog

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