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Darrick J. Wong e8db2aafce xfs: fix memory corruption during remote attr value buffer invalidation
While running generic/103, I observed what looks like memory corruption
and (with slub debugging turned on) a slub redzone warning on i386 when
inactivating an inode with a 64k remote attr value.

On a v5 filesystem, maximally sized remote attr values require one block
more than 64k worth of space to hold both the remote attribute value
header (64 bytes).  On a 4k block filesystem this results in a 68k
buffer; on a 64k block filesystem, this would be a 128k buffer.  Note
that even though we'll never use more than 65,600 bytes of this buffer,
XFS_MAX_BLOCKSIZE is 64k.

This is a problem because the definition of struct xfs_buf_log_format
allows for XFS_MAX_BLOCKSIZE worth of dirty bitmap (64k).  On i386 when we
invalidate a remote attribute, xfs_trans_binval zeroes all 68k worth of
the dirty map, writing right off the end of the log item and corrupting
memory.  We've gotten away with this on x86_64 for years because the
compiler inserts a u32 padding on the end of struct xfs_buf_log_format.

Fortunately for us, remote attribute values are written to disk with
xfs_bwrite(), which is to say that they are not logged.  Fix the problem
by removing all places where we could end up creating a buffer log item
for a remote attribute value and leave a note explaining why.  Next,
replace the open-coded buffer invalidation with a call to the helper we
created in the previous patch that does better checking for bad metadata
before marking the buffer stale.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-01-16 08:07:23 -08:00
arch riscv: export flush_icache_all to modules 2019-12-27 21:51:01 -08:00
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