FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: lock the xattr block before checksuming it" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: lock the xattr block before checksuming it" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
@ 2017-03-27 16:56 gregkh
  2020-05-23  3:18 ` [PATCH] ext4: lock the xattr block before checksuming it Sultan Alsawaf
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2017-03-27 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tytso, colin.king; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From dac7a4b4b1f664934e8b713f529b629f67db313c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:22:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: lock the xattr block before checksuming it

We must lock the xattr block before calculating or verifying the
checksum in order to avoid spurious checksum failures.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193661

Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 67636acf7624..996e7900d4c8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -131,31 +131,26 @@ static __le32 ext4_xattr_block_csum(struct inode *inode,
 }
 
 static int ext4_xattr_block_csum_verify(struct inode *inode,
-					sector_t block_nr,
-					struct ext4_xattr_header *hdr)
+					struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
-	if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb) &&
-	    (hdr->h_checksum != ext4_xattr_block_csum(inode, block_nr, hdr)))
-		return 0;
-	return 1;
-}
-
-static void ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(struct inode *inode,
-				      sector_t block_nr,
-				      struct ext4_xattr_header *hdr)
-{
-	if (!ext4_has_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb))
-		return;
+	struct ext4_xattr_header *hdr = BHDR(bh);
+	int ret = 1;
 
-	hdr->h_checksum = ext4_xattr_block_csum(inode, block_nr, hdr);
+	if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb)) {
+		lock_buffer(bh);
+		ret = (hdr->h_checksum == ext4_xattr_block_csum(inode,
+							bh->b_blocknr, hdr));
+		unlock_buffer(bh);
+	}
+	return ret;
 }
 
-static inline int ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle_t *handle,
-						struct inode *inode,
-						struct buffer_head *bh)
+static void ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(struct inode *inode,
+				      struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
-	ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, bh->b_blocknr, BHDR(bh));
-	return ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
+	if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb))
+		BHDR(bh)->h_checksum = ext4_xattr_block_csum(inode,
+						bh->b_blocknr, BHDR(bh));
 }
 
 static inline const struct xattr_handler *
@@ -233,7 +228,7 @@ ext4_xattr_check_block(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	if (BHDR(bh)->h_magic != cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC) ||
 	    BHDR(bh)->h_blocks != cpu_to_le32(1))
 		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
-	if (!ext4_xattr_block_csum_verify(inode, bh->b_blocknr, BHDR(bh)))
+	if (!ext4_xattr_block_csum_verify(inode, bh))
 		return -EFSBADCRC;
 	error = ext4_xattr_check_names(BFIRST(bh), bh->b_data + bh->b_size,
 				       bh->b_data);
@@ -618,23 +613,22 @@ ext4_xattr_release_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			}
 		}
 
+		ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, bh);
 		/*
 		 * Beware of this ugliness: Releasing of xattr block references
 		 * from different inodes can race and so we have to protect
 		 * from a race where someone else frees the block (and releases
 		 * its journal_head) before we are done dirtying the buffer. In
 		 * nojournal mode this race is harmless and we actually cannot
-		 * call ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block() with locked buffer as
+		 * call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() with locked buffer as
 		 * that function can call sync_dirty_buffer() so for that case
 		 * we handle the dirtying after unlocking the buffer.
 		 */
 		if (ext4_handle_valid(handle))
-			error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle, inode,
-							      bh);
+			error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
 		unlock_buffer(bh);
 		if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle))
-			error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle, inode,
-							      bh);
+			error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
 		if (IS_SYNC(inode))
 			ext4_handle_sync(handle);
 		dquot_free_block(inode, EXT4_C2B(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb), 1));
@@ -863,13 +857,14 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 				ext4_xattr_cache_insert(ext4_mb_cache,
 					bs->bh);
 			}
+			ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, bs->bh);
 			unlock_buffer(bs->bh);
 			if (error == -EFSCORRUPTED)
 				goto bad_block;
 			if (!error)
-				error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle,
-								      inode,
-								      bs->bh);
+				error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
+								   inode,
+								   bs->bh);
 			if (error)
 				goto cleanup;
 			goto inserted;
@@ -967,10 +962,11 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 					ce->e_reusable = 0;
 				ea_bdebug(new_bh, "reusing; refcount now=%d",
 					  ref);
+				ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, new_bh);
 				unlock_buffer(new_bh);
-				error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle,
-								      inode,
-								      new_bh);
+				error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
+								   inode,
+								   new_bh);
 				if (error)
 					goto cleanup_dquot;
 			}
@@ -1020,11 +1016,12 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 				goto getblk_failed;
 			}
 			memcpy(new_bh->b_data, s->base, new_bh->b_size);
+			ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, new_bh);
 			set_buffer_uptodate(new_bh);
 			unlock_buffer(new_bh);
 			ext4_xattr_cache_insert(ext4_mb_cache, new_bh);
-			error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle,
-							      inode, new_bh);
+			error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode,
+							   new_bh);
 			if (error)
 				goto cleanup;
 		}

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