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Filipe Manana 2aa515b5b5 btrfs: fix infinite directory reads 
commit 9b378f6ad4 upstream.

The readdir implementation currently processes always up to the last index
it finds. This however can result in an infinite loop if the directory has
a large number of entries such that they won't all fit in the given buffer
passed to the readdir callback, that is, dir_emit() returns a non-zero
value. Because in that case readdir() will be called again and if in the
meanwhile new directory entries were added and we still can't put all the
remaining entries in the buffer, we keep repeating this over and over.

The following C program and test script reproduce the problem:

  $ cat /mnt/readdir_prog.c
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <dirent.h>
  #include <stdio.h>

  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
    DIR *dir = opendir(".");
    struct dirent *dd;

    while ((dd = readdir(dir))) {
      printf("%s\n", dd->d_name);
      rename(dd->d_name, "TEMPFILE");
      rename("TEMPFILE", dd->d_name);
    }
    closedir(dir);
  }

  $ gcc -o /mnt/readdir_prog /mnt/readdir_prog.c

  $ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  DEV=/dev/sdi
  MNT=/mnt/sdi

  mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV &> /dev/null
  #mkfs.xfs -f $DEV &> /dev/null
  #mkfs.ext4 -F $DEV &> /dev/null

  mount $DEV $MNT

  mkdir $MNT/testdir
  for ((i = 1; i <= 2000; i++)); do
      echo -n > $MNT/testdir/file_$i
  done

  cd $MNT/testdir
  /mnt/readdir_prog

  cd /mnt

  umount $MNT

This behaviour is surprising to applications and it's unlike ext4, xfs,
tmpfs, vfat and other filesystems, which always finish. In this case where
new entries were added due to renames, some file names may be reported
more than once, but this varies according to each filesystem - for example
ext4 never reported the same file more than once while xfs reports the
first 13 file names twice.

So change our readdir implementation to track the last index number when
opendir() is called and then make readdir() never process beyond that
index number. This gives the same behaviour as ext4.

Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/2c8c55ec-04c6-e0dc-9c5c-8c7924778c35@landley.net/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217681
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-01-31 16:17:05 -08:00
arch LoongArch/smp: Call rcutree_report_cpu_starting() earlier 2024-01-31 16:17:03 -08:00
block block: Remove special-casing of compound pages 2024-01-25 15:27:52 -08:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names 2024-01-31 16:16:58 -08:00
Documentation rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories 2024-01-31 16:17:02 -08:00
drivers net/mlx5e: fix a potential double-free in fs_any_create_groups 2024-01-31 16:17:05 -08:00
fs btrfs: fix infinite directory reads 2024-01-31 16:17:05 -08:00
include udp: fix busy polling 2024-01-31 16:17:04 -08:00
init rootfs: Fix support for rootfstype= when root= is given 2024-01-25 15:27:43 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/rw: ensure io->bytes_done is always initialized 2024-01-25 15:27:41 -08:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel rcu: Defer RCU kthreads wakeup when CPU is dying 2024-01-31 16:17:05 -08:00
lib kunit: debugfs: Fix unchecked dereference in debugfs_print_results() 2024-01-25 15:27:21 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: page_alloc: unreserve highatomic page blocks before oom 2024-01-31 16:17:03 -08:00
net netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow 2024-01-31 16:17:05 -08:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples fprobe: Pass entry_data to handlers 2023-10-25 12:03:12 +02:00
scripts scripts/get_abi: fix source path leak 2024-01-31 16:17:01 -08:00
security lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook 2024-01-31 16:17:00 -08:00
sound ASoC: mediatek: sof-common: Add NULL check for normal_link string 2024-01-25 15:27:48 -08:00
tools selftests: mlxsw: qos_pfc: Adjust the test to support 8 lanes 2024-01-25 15:27:51 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/ 2024-01-10 17:10:33 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.75 2024-01-25 15:27:52 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.