ext4: fix race writing to an inline_data file while its xattrs are changing
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 21 Aug 2021 03:44:17 +0000 (23:44 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:45:14 +0000 (11:45 +0200)
commit9569234645f102025aaf0fc83d3dcbf1b8cbf2dc
treebe947c780d3e3fcdcc08f077b1775a40540add01
parentf96eb53cbd76415edfba99c2cfa88567a885a428
ext4: fix race writing to an inline_data file while its xattrs are changing

commit a54c4613dac1500b40e4ab55199f7c51f028e848 upstream.

The location of the system.data extended attribute can change whenever
xattr_sem is not taken.  So we need to recalculate the i_inline_off
field since it mgiht have changed between ext4_write_begin() and
ext4_write_end().

This means that caching i_inline_off is probably not helpful, so in
the long run we should probably get rid of it and shrink the in-memory
ext4 inode slightly, but let's fix the race the simple way for now.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: f19d5870cbf72 ("ext4: add normal write support for inline data")
Reported-by: syzbot+13146364637c7363a7de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inline.c