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Btrfs: do not overwrite error return value in the balance ioctl

Message ID 20181214194541.21891-1-fdmanana@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Btrfs: do not overwrite error return value in the balance ioctl | expand

Commit Message

Filipe Manana Dec. 14, 2018, 7:45 p.m. UTC 
From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>

If the call to btrfs_balance() failed we would overwrite the error
returned to user space with -EFAULT if the call to copy_to_user() failed
as well. Fix that by calling copy_to_user() only if btrfs_balance()
returned success.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Anand Jain Dec. 17, 2018, 8:25 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 12/15/2018 03:45 AM, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> 
> If the call to btrfs_balance() failed we would overwrite the error
> returned to user space with -EFAULT if the call to copy_to_user() failed
> as well. Fix that by calling copy_to_user() only if btrfs_balance()
> returned success.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> ---
>   fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> index abe45fd97ab5..4ad7288f77d0 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> @@ -4707,7 +4707,7 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_balance(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
>   	ret = btrfs_balance(fs_info, bctl, bargs);
>   	bctl = NULL;
>   
> -	if (arg) {
> +	if (ret == 0 && arg) {
>   		if (copy_to_user(arg, bargs, sizeof(*bargs)))
>   			ret = -EFAULT;
>   	}
> 

This changes the BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 semantics.

Originally, if BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 is failed/canceled we do update
bargs [1] and copy to user land, but after this patch we copy only
if the ioctl is successful. I doubt if David is OK with that.

[1]
----------
3717 int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
3718                   struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
3719                   struct btrfs_ioctl_balance_args *bargs)
3720 {
::

3855         ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);
3856
3857         mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
3858         clear_bit(BTRFS_FS_BALANCE_RUNNING, &fs_info->flags);
3859
3860         if (bargs) {
3861                 memset(bargs, 0, sizeof(*bargs));
3862                 btrfs_update_ioctl_balance_args(fs_info, bargs);
3863         }
Filipe Manana Dec. 17, 2018, 9:24 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 8:25 AM Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 12/15/2018 03:45 AM, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> > From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> >
> > If the call to btrfs_balance() failed we would overwrite the error
> > returned to user space with -EFAULT if the call to copy_to_user() failed
> > as well. Fix that by calling copy_to_user() only if btrfs_balance()
> > returned success.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> > ---
> >   fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > index abe45fd97ab5..4ad7288f77d0 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > @@ -4707,7 +4707,7 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_balance(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
> >       ret = btrfs_balance(fs_info, bctl, bargs);
> >       bctl = NULL;
> >
> > -     if (arg) {
> > +     if (ret == 0 && arg) {
> >               if (copy_to_user(arg, bargs, sizeof(*bargs)))
> >                       ret = -EFAULT;
> >       }
> >
>
> This changes the BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 semantics.
>
> Originally, if BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 is failed/canceled we do update
> bargs [1] and copy to user land, but after this patch we copy only
> if the ioctl is successful. I doubt if David is OK with that.

I thought about that. But that logic, if it's really in use by someone
(something) out there then they must be treating -EFAULT differently
from any other error.
Because if copy_to_user() fails it means it didn't copy all bytes it
was so supposed to (its return value is number of bytes not copied),
so the arguments structure ends up in an inconsistent state.


>
> [1]
> ----------
> 3717 int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
> 3718                   struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
> 3719                   struct btrfs_ioctl_balance_args *bargs)
> 3720 {
> ::
>
> 3855         ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);
> 3856
> 3857         mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
> 3858         clear_bit(BTRFS_FS_BALANCE_RUNNING, &fs_info->flags);
> 3859
> 3860         if (bargs) {
> 3861                 memset(bargs, 0, sizeof(*bargs));
> 3862                 btrfs_update_ioctl_balance_args(fs_info, bargs);
> 3863         }
>
David Sterba Jan. 2, 2019, 6:28 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:24:43AM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 8:25 AM Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/15/2018 03:45 AM, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> > > From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> > >
> > > If the call to btrfs_balance() failed we would overwrite the error
> > > returned to user space with -EFAULT if the call to copy_to_user() failed
> > > as well. Fix that by calling copy_to_user() only if btrfs_balance()
> > > returned success.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> > > ---
> > >   fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > > index abe45fd97ab5..4ad7288f77d0 100644
> > > --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > > +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> > > @@ -4707,7 +4707,7 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_balance(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
> > >       ret = btrfs_balance(fs_info, bctl, bargs);
> > >       bctl = NULL;
> > >
> > > -     if (arg) {
> > > +     if (ret == 0 && arg) {
> > >               if (copy_to_user(arg, bargs, sizeof(*bargs)))
> > >                       ret = -EFAULT;
> > >       }
> > >
> >
> > This changes the BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 semantics.
> >
> > Originally, if BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_V2 is failed/canceled we do update
> > bargs [1] and copy to user land, but after this patch we copy only
> > if the ioctl is successful. I doubt if David is OK with that.
> 
> I thought about that. But that logic, if it's really in use by someone
> (something) out there then they must be treating -EFAULT differently
> from any other error.
> Because if copy_to_user() fails it means it didn't copy all bytes it
> was so supposed to (its return value is number of bytes not copied),
> so the arguments structure ends up in an inconsistent state.

The balance ioctl as used in btrfs-progs expects valid contents of the
bargs even if the ioctl returns negative value, with errno set to
ECANCELED:

https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/blob/master/cmds-balance.c#L458

So the condition would need to take that into account

	if ((ret == 0 || ret == -ECANCELED) && arg)

I haven't found any other error that would need to be whitelisted here.
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index abe45fd97ab5..4ad7288f77d0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -4707,7 +4707,7 @@  static long btrfs_ioctl_balance(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
 	ret = btrfs_balance(fs_info, bctl, bargs);
 	bctl = NULL;
 
-	if (arg) {
+	if (ret == 0 && arg) {
 		if (copy_to_user(arg, bargs, sizeof(*bargs)))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 	}