SUSE: CVE-2023-52582: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Only call folio_start_fscache() one time for each folio

If a network filesystem using netfs implements a clamp_length()
function, it can set subrequest lengths smaller than a page size.

When we loop through the folios in netfs_rreq_unlock_folios() to
set any folios to be written back, we need to make sure we only
call folio_start_fscache() once for each folio.

Otherwise, this simple testcase:

mount -o fsc,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 127.0.0.1:/export /mnt/nfs
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/file.bin bs=4096 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 0.0126359 s, 324 kB/s
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
cat /mnt/nfs/file.bin > /dev/null

will trigger an oops similar to the following:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_private_2(folio))
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kernel BUG at include/linux/netfs.h:44!
...
CPU: 5 PID: 134 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5
...
RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock_folios+0x68e/0x730 [netfs]
...
Call Trace:
netfs_rreq_assess+0x497/0x660 [netfs]
netfs_subreq_terminated+0x32b/0x610 [netfs]
nfs_netfs_read_completion+0x14e/0x1a0 [nfs]
nfs_read_completion+0x2f9/0x330 [nfs]
rpc_free_task+0x72/0xa0 [sunrpc]
rpc_async_release+0x46/0x70 [sunrpc]
process_one_work+0x3bd/0x710
worker_thread+0x89/0x610
kthread+0x181/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50