[PATCH 6.12 197/272] netfs: Fix early put of sink folio in netfs_read_gaps()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 21:49:31 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.netfs,dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Howells <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3e5dd91b87a8b1450217b56a336bee315f40da7d ]

Fix netfs_read_gaps() to release the sink page it uses after waiting for
the request to complete.  The way the sink page is used is that an
ITER_BVEC-class iterator is created that has the gaps from the target folio
at either end, but has the sink page tiled over the middle so that a single
read op can fill in both gaps.

The bug was found by KASAN detecting a UAF on the generic/075 xfstest in
the cifsd kernel thread that handles reception of data from the TCP socket:

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20
 Write of size 885 at addr ffff888107f92000 by task cifsd/1285
 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1285 Comm: cifsd Not tainted 7.0.0 #6 PREEMPT(lazy)
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
  print_report+0x17f/0x4f1
  kasan_report+0x100/0x1e0
  kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
  __asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60
  _copy_to_iter+0x48a/0xa20
  __skb_datagram_iter+0x2c9/0x430
  skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x6e/0x160
  tcp_recvmsg_locked+0xce0/0x1130
  tcp_recvmsg+0xeb/0x300
  inet_recvmsg+0xcf/0x3a0
  sock_recvmsg+0xea/0x100
  cifs_readv_from_socket+0x3a6/0x4d0 [cifs]
  cifs_read_iter_from_socket+0xdd/0x130 [cifs]
  cifs_readv_receive+0xaad/0xb10 [cifs]
  cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1148/0x1740 [cifs]
  kthread+0x1cf/0x210

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Reported-by: Steve French <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
index 2dd2260352dbf..1c906035fef02 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
@@ -525,14 +525,14 @@ static int netfs_read_gaps(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
 
 	netfs_read_to_pagecache(rreq);
 
-	if (sink)
-		folio_put(sink);
-
 	ret = netfs_wait_for_read(rreq);
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		flush_dcache_folio(folio);
 		folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
 	}
+
+	if (sink)
+		folio_put(sink);
 	folio_unlock(folio);
 	netfs_put_request(rreq, false, netfs_rreq_trace_put_return);
 	return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
-- 
2.53.0