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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:14:25 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Use CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION() when kernel bugs are detected

Currently, filp_close() and generic_shutdown_super() use printk() to log
messages when bugs are detected. This is problematic because infrastructure
like syzkaller has no idea that this message indicates a bug.
In addition, some people explicitly want their kernels to BUG() when kernel
data corruption has been detected (CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION).
And finally, when generic_shutdown_super() detects remaining inodes on a
system without CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION, it would be nice if later
accesses to a busy inode would at least crash somewhat cleanly rather than
walking through freed memory.

To address all three, use CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION() when kernel bugs are
detected.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
---
 fs/open.c              |  5 +++--
 fs/super.c             | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 include/linux/poison.h |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 82c1a28b3308..ceb88ac0ca3b 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1411,8 +1411,9 @@ int filp_close(struct file *filp, fl_owner_t id)
 {
 	int retval = 0;
 
-	if (!file_count(filp)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Close: file count is 0\n");
+	if (CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION(file_count(filp) == 0,
+			"VFS: Close: file count is 0 (f_op=%ps)",
+			filp->f_op)) {
 		return 0;
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 12c08cb20405..cf737ec2bd05 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -491,10 +491,23 @@ void generic_shutdown_super(struct super_block *sb)
 		if (sop->put_super)
 			sop->put_super(sb);
 
-		if (!list_empty(&sb->s_inodes)) {
-			printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of %s. "
-			   "Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...\n",
-			   sb->s_id);
+		if (CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION(!list_empty(&sb->s_inodes),
+				"VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of %s (%s)",
+				sb->s_id, sb->s_type->name)) {
+			/*
+			 * Adding a proper bailout path here would be hard, but
+			 * we can at least make it more likely that a later
+			 * iput_final() or such crashes cleanly.
+			 */
+			struct inode *inode;
+
+			spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+			list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
+				inode->i_op = VFS_PTR_POISON;
+				inode->i_sb = VFS_PTR_POISON;
+				inode->i_mapping = VFS_PTR_POISON;
+			}
+			spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
 		}
 	}
 	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 2d3249eb0e62..0e8a1f2ceb2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -84,4 +84,7 @@
 /********** kernel/bpf/ **********/
 #define BPF_PTR_POISON ((void *)(0xeB9FUL + POISON_POINTER_DELTA))
 
+/********** VFS **********/
+#define VFS_PTR_POISON ((void *)(0xF5 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA))
+
 #endif

base-commit: 5dc4c995db9eb45f6373a956eb1f69460e69e6d4
-- 
2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog

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