CVE-2017-18204 (published 2018-02-27T20:29Z)

The ocfs2_setattr function in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-noinfo
cwe_name: Insufficient Information
description: There is insufficient information about the issue to classify it; details are unkown or unspecified.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: alex chen
author_date: 2017-11-15 17:31:40-08:00
msg: ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr()

we should wait dio requests to finish before inode lock in
ocfs2_setattr(), otherwise the following deadlock will happen:

process 1                  process 2                    process 3
truncate file 'A'          end_io of writing file 'A'   receiving the bast messages
ocfs2_setattr
 ocfs2_inode_lock_tracker
  ocfs2_inode_lock_full
 inode_dio_wait
  __inode_dio_wait
  -->waiting for all dio
  requests finish
                                                        dlm_proxy_ast_handler
                                                         dlm_do_local_bast
                                                          ocfs2_blocking_ast
                                                           ocfs2_generic_handle_bast
                                                            set OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED flag
                        dio_end_io
                         dio_bio_end_aio
                          dio_complete
                           ocfs2_dio_end_io
                            ocfs2_dio_end_io_write
                             ocfs2_inode_lock
                              __ocfs2_cluster_lock
                               ocfs2_wait_for_mask
                               -->waiting for OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED
                               flag to be cleared, that is waiting
                               for 'process 1' unlocking the inode lock
                           inode_dio_end
                           -->here dec the i_dio_count, but will never
                           be called, so a deadlock happened.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/59F81636.70508@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@versity.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: file.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1161,6 +1161,13 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	}
 	size_change = S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE;
 	if (size_change) {
+		/*
+		 * Here we should wait dio to finish before inode lock
+		 * to avoid a deadlock between ocfs2_setattr() and
+		 * ocfs2_dio_end_io_write()
+		 */
+		inode_dio_wait(inode);
+
 		status = ocfs2_rw_lock(inode, 1);
 		if (status < 0) {
 			mlog_errno(status);
@@ -1200,8 +1207,6 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 		if (status)
 			goto bail_unlock;
 
-		inode_dio_wait(inode);
-
 		if (i_size_read(inode) >= attr->ia_size) {
 			if (ocfs2_should_order_data(inode)) {
 				status = ocfs2_begin_ordered_truncate(inode,

programming_language: C