kernel/linux.git/net/9p/client.c, branch v6.18.41

net/9p: fix infinite loop in p9_client_rpc on fatal signal

2026-07-24T14:17:02+00:00

commit 6b4f48728faa8bb514368f7eacda05565dea8696 upstream. When p9_client_rpc() is called with type P9_TFLUSH and the transport has no peer (e.g. fd transport backed by pipes with no 9p server), a fatal signal causes an infinite loop: again: err = io_wait_event_killable(req->wq, ...) /* SIGKILL wakes the task, returns -ERESTARTSYS */ if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected && type == P9_TFLUSH) { sigpending = 1; clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING); goto again; } clear_thread_flag() clears TIF_SIGPENDING before jumping back to io_wait_event_killable(). signal_pending_state() checks TIF_SIGPENDING, finds it zero, and the task goes to sleep again. The task can only wake on the next signal delivery that calls signal_wake_up() and sets TIF_SIGPENDING again. When that happens the loop repeats, clears TIF_SIGPENDING, and sleeps again indefinitely. This is triggered in practice by coredump_wait(): when a thread in a multi-threaded process causes a coredump (e.g. via SIGSYS from Syscall User Dispatch), coredump_wait() sends SIGKILL to all other threads and waits for them to call mm_release(). If one of those threads is blocked in p9_client_rpc() over an fd transport with no peer, it enters the P9_TFLUSH loop and never calls mm_release(), so coredump_wait() stalls forever: INFO: task syz.0.18:676 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Not tainted 6.12.77+ #1 task:syz.0.18 state:D stack:27600 pid:676 tgid:673 ppid:630 flags:0x00000004 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5344 [inline] __schedule+0xcb4/0x5d50 kernel/sched/core.c:6724 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6801 [inline] schedule+0xe5/0x350 kernel/sched/core.c:6816 schedule_timeout+0x253/0x290 kernel/time/timer.c:2593 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:95 [inline] __wait_for_common+0x409/0x600 kernel/sched/completion.c:116 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:127 [inline] wait_for_completion_state+0x1d/0x40 kernel/sched/completion.c:264 coredump_wait fs/coredump.c:448 [inline] do_coredump+0x854/0x4350 fs/coredump.c:629 get_signal+0x1425/0x2730 kernel/signal.c:2903 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x81/0x880 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:111 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:328 [inline] __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xf9/0x160 kernel/entry/common.c:218 do_syscall_64+0x102/0x220 arch/x86/entry/common.c:84 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fix: check fatal_signal_pending() before clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in the P9_TFLUSH retry loop. At that point TIF_SIGPENDING is still set, so fatal_signal_pending() works correctly. If a fatal signal is pending, jump to recalc_sigpending to restore TIF_SIGPENDING and return -ERESTARTSYS to the caller. The same defect is present in stable kernels back to 5.4. On those kernels the infinite loop is broken earlier by a second SIGKILL from the parent process (e.g. kill_and_wait() retrying after a timeout), resulting in a zombie process and a shutdown delay rather than a permanent D-state hang, but the underlying flaw is the same. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. Fixes: 91b8534fa8f5 ("9p: make rpc code common and rework flush code") Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3ce7863f8fc836a427e7 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev Message-ID: <20260415155237.182891-1-kovalev@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

9p: avoid putting oldfid in p9_client_walk() error path

2026-07-04T11:44:20+00:00

commit 1a3860d46e3eb47dbd60339783cdad7904486b9f upstream. When p9_client_walk() is called with clone set to false, fid aliases oldfid. If the walk subsequently fails after the request has been sent, the error path jumps to clunk_fid, which currently calls p9_fid_put(fid) unconditionally. This drops a reference to oldfid even though ownership of oldfid remains with the caller. If this is the last reference, oldfid can be clunked and destroyed while the caller still expects it to be valid. A later use or put of oldfid can then trigger a use-after-free or refcount underflow. Fix this by only putting fid in the clunk_fid error path when it does not alias oldfid, matching the existing guard in the error path below. This can be triggered when a multi-component walk is split into multiple p9_client_walk() calls and a later non-cloning walk fails. A reproducer and refcount warning logs are available on request. Fixes: b48dbb998d70 ("9p fid refcount: add p9_fid_get/put wrappers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang Reported-by: Ao Wang Reported-by: Xuewei Feng Reported-by: Qi Li Reported-by: Ke Xu Assisted-by: GLM 5.1 Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao Message-ID: <20260528053918.53550-1-zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref

2025-05-21T12:35:20+00:00

When the netfs_io_request struct's work item is queued, it must be supplied with a ref to the work item struct to prevent it being deallocated whilst on the queue or whilst it is being processed. This is tricky to manage as we have to get a ref before we try and queue it and then we may find it's already queued and is thus already holding a ref - in which case we have to try and get rid of the ref again. The problem comes if we're in BH or IRQ context and need to drop the ref: if netfs_put_request() reduces the count to 0, we have to do the cleanup - but the cleanup may need to wait. Fix this by adding a new work item to the request, ->cleanup_work, and dispatching that when the refcount hits zero. That can then synchronously cancel any outstanding work on the main work item before doing the cleanup. Adding a new work item also deals with another problem upstream where it's sometimes changing the work func in the put function and requeuing it - which has occasionally in the past caused the cleanup to happen incorrectly. As a bonus, this allows us to get rid of the 'was_async' parameter from a bunch of functions. This indicated whether the put function might not be permitted to sleep. Fixes: 3d3c95046742 ("netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-4-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Marc Dionne cc: Steve French cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

9p/net: return error on bogus (longer than requested) replies

2025-03-19T12:20:25+00:00

Up until now we've been considering longer than requested replies as acceptable, printing a message and just truncating the data, but it makes more sense to consider these an error. Make these fail with EIO instead. Suggested-by: Christian Schoenebeck Message-ID: <20250317-p9_bogus_io_error-v1-1-9639f6d1561f@codewreck.org> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet

9p/net: fix improper handling of bogus negative read/write replies

2025-03-19T12:19:59+00:00

In p9_client_write() and p9_client_read_once(), if the server incorrectly replies with success but a negative write/read count then we would consider written (negative) <= rsize (positive) because both variables were signed. Make variables unsigned to avoid this problem. The reproducer linked below now fails with the following error instead of a null pointer deref: 9pnet: bogus RWRITE count (4294967295 > 3) Reported-by: Robert Morris Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/16271.1734448631@26-5-164.dynamic.csail.mit.edu Message-ID: <20250319-9p_unsigned_rw-v3-1-71327f1503d0@codewreck.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet

9p: fix slab cache name creation for real

2024-10-21T22:41:29+00:00

This was attempted by using the dev_name in the slab cache name, but as Omar Sandoval pointed out, that can be an arbitrary string, eg something like "/dev/root". Which in turn trips verify_dirent_name(), which fails if a filename contains a slash. So just make it use a sequence counter, and make it an atomic_t to avoid any possible races or locking issues. Reported-and-tested-by: Omar Sandoval Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZxafcO8KWMlXaeWE@telecaster.dhcp.thefacebook.com/ Fixes: 79efebae4afc ("9p: Avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same name") Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

9p: Avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same name

2024-09-22T20:51:27+00:00

In the spirit of [1], avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same name. Instead, add the dev_name into the mix. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240807090746.2146479-1-pedro.falcato@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato Reported-by: syzbot+3c5d43e97993e1fa612b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Message-ID: <20240807094725.2193423-1-pedro.falcato@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet

Merge tag '9p-for-6.10-rc2' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux

2024-05-29T16:25:15+00:00

Pull 9p fixes from Dominique Martinet: "Two fixes headed to stable trees: - a trace event was dumping uninitialized values - a missing lock that was thought to have exclusive access, and it turned out not to" * tag '9p-for-6.10-rc2' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux: 9p: add missing locking around taking dentry fid list net/9p: fix uninit-value in p9_client_rpc()

net/9p: fix uninit-value in p9_client_rpc()

2024-05-21T12:27:28+00:00

Syzbot with the help of KMSAN reported the following error: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in trace_9p_client_res include/trace/events/9p.h:146 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in p9_client_rpc+0x1314/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:754 trace_9p_client_res include/trace/events/9p.h:146 [inline] p9_client_rpc+0x1314/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:754 p9_client_create+0x1551/0x1ff0 net/9p/client.c:1031 v9fs_session_init+0x1b9/0x28e0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:410 v9fs_mount+0xe2/0x12b0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:122 legacy_get_tree+0x114/0x290 fs/fs_context.c:662 vfs_get_tree+0xa7/0x570 fs/super.c:1797 do_new_mount+0x71f/0x15e0 fs/namespace.c:3352 path_mount+0x742/0x1f20 fs/namespace.c:3679 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3692 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x725/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:3875 do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75 Uninit was created at: __alloc_pages+0x9d6/0xe70 mm/page_alloc.c:4598 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline] alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline] alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2175 [inline] allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2338 [inline] new_slab+0x2de/0x1400 mm/slub.c:2391 ___slab_alloc+0x1184/0x33d0 mm/slub.c:3525 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3610 [inline] __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3663 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3835 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc+0x6d3/0xbe0 mm/slub.c:3852 p9_tag_alloc net/9p/client.c:278 [inline] p9_client_prepare_req+0x20a/0x1770 net/9p/client.c:641 p9_client_rpc+0x27e/0x1340 net/9p/client.c:688 p9_client_create+0x1551/0x1ff0 net/9p/client.c:1031 v9fs_session_init+0x1b9/0x28e0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:410 v9fs_mount+0xe2/0x12b0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:122 legacy_get_tree+0x114/0x290 fs/fs_context.c:662 vfs_get_tree+0xa7/0x570 fs/super.c:1797 do_new_mount+0x71f/0x15e0 fs/namespace.c:3352 path_mount+0x742/0x1f20 fs/namespace.c:3679 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3692 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x725/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:3875 do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75 If p9_check_errors() fails early in p9_client_rpc(), req->rc.tag will not be properly initialized. However, trace_9p_client_res() ends up trying to print it out anyway before p9_client_rpc() finishes. Fix this issue by assigning default values to p9_fcall fields such as 'tag' and (just in case KMSAN unearths something new) 'id' during the tag allocation stage. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+ff14db38f56329ef68df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 348b59012e5c ("net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints") Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20240408141039.30428-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet

netfs, 9p: Implement helpers for new write code

2024-05-01T17:07:37+00:00

Implement the helpers for the new write code in 9p. There's now an optional ->prepare_write() that allows the filesystem to set the parameters for the next write, such as maximum size and maximum segment count, and an ->issue_write() that is called to initiate an (asynchronous) write operation. Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton cc: Eric Van Hensbergen cc: Latchesar Ionkov cc: Dominique Martinet cc: Christian Schoenebeck cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org