ext4: fix potential race between s_flex_groups online resizing and access
During an online resize an array of s_flex_groups structures gets replaced
so it can get enlarged. If there is a concurrent access to the array and
this memory has been reused then this can lead to an invalid memory access.
The s_flex_group array has been converted into an array of pointers rather
than an array of structures. This is to ensure that the information
contained in the structures cannot get out of sync during a resize due to
an accessor updating the value in the old structure after it has been
copied but before the array pointer is updated. Since the structures them-
selves are no longer copied but only the pointers to them this case is
mitigated.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206443
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200221053458.730016-4-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index b1ece53..614fefa 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
unsigned int s_extent_max_zeroout_kb;
unsigned int s_log_groups_per_flex;
- struct flex_groups *s_flex_groups;
+ struct flex_groups * __rcu *s_flex_groups;
ext4_group_t s_flex_groups_allocated;
/* workqueue for reserved extent conversions (buffered io) */