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nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint
Patch series "nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref bugs on block tracepoints". This series fixes null pointer dereference bugs that occur when using nilfs2 and two block-related tracepoints. This patch (of 2): It has been reported that when using "block:block_touch_buffer" tracepoint, touch_buffer() called from __nilfs_get_folio_block() causes a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because since the tracepoint was added in touch_buffer(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, the block_device structure is set after the function returns to the caller. Here, touch_buffer() is used to mark the folio/page that owns the buffer head as accessed, but the common search helper for folio/page used by the caller function was optimized to mark the folio/page as accessed when it was reimplemented a long time ago, eliminating the need to call touch_buffer() here in the first place. So this solves the issue by eliminating the touch_buffer() call itself. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 5305cb8 ("block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> Reported-by: Ubisectech Sirius <[email protected]> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Reported-by: [email protected] Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9982fb8d18eba905abe2 Tested-by: [email protected] Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ static struct buffer_head *__nilfs_get_folio_block(struct folio *folio,
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first_block = (unsigned long)index << (PAGE_SHIFT - blkbits);
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bh = get_nth_bh(bh, block - first_block);
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touch_buffer(bh);
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wait_on_buffer(bh);
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return bh;
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}

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