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ovl: fix deadlock in splice write
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There's possibility of an ABBA deadlock in case of a splice write to an
overlayfs file and a concurrent splice write to a corresponding real file.

The call chain for splice to an overlay file:

 -> do_splice                     [takes sb_writers on overlay file]
   -> do_splice_from
     -> iter_file_splice_write    [takes pipe->mutex]
       -> vfs_iter_write
         ...
         -> ovl_write_iter        [takes sb_writers on real file]

And the call chain for splice to a real file:

 -> do_splice                     [takes sb_writers on real file]
   -> do_splice_from
     -> iter_file_splice_write    [takes pipe->mutex]

Syzbot successfully bisected this to commit 82a763e ("ovl: simplify
file splice").

Fix by reverting the write part of the above commit and by adding missing
bits from ovl_write_iter() into ovl_splice_write().

Fixes: 82a763e ("ovl: simplify file splice")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+579885d1a9a833336209@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi committed Aug 10, 2021
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47 changes: 46 additions & 1 deletion fs/overlayfs/file.c
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Expand Up @@ -392,6 +392,51 @@ static ssize_t ovl_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
return ret;
}

/*
* Calling iter_file_splice_write() directly from overlay's f_op may deadlock
* due to lock order inversion between pipe->mutex in iter_file_splice_write()
* and file_start_write(real.file) in ovl_write_iter().
*
* So do everything ovl_write_iter() does and call iter_file_splice_write() on
* the real file.
*/
static ssize_t ovl_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags)
{
struct fd real;
const struct cred *old_cred;
struct inode *inode = file_inode(out);
struct inode *realinode = ovl_inode_real(inode);
ssize_t ret;

inode_lock(inode);
/* Update mode */
ovl_copyattr(realinode, inode);
ret = file_remove_privs(out);
if (ret)
goto out_unlock;

ret = ovl_real_fdget(out, &real);
if (ret)
goto out_unlock;

old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
file_start_write(real.file);

ret = iter_file_splice_write(pipe, real.file, ppos, len, flags);

file_end_write(real.file);
/* Update size */
ovl_copyattr(realinode, inode);
revert_creds(old_cred);
fdput(real);

out_unlock:
inode_unlock(inode);

return ret;
}

static int ovl_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
{
struct fd real;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -603,7 +648,7 @@ const struct file_operations ovl_file_operations = {
.fadvise = ovl_fadvise,
.flush = ovl_flush,
.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
.splice_write = iter_file_splice_write,
.splice_write = ovl_splice_write,

.copy_file_range = ovl_copy_file_range,
.remap_file_range = ovl_remap_file_range,
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