btrfs: fix infinite directory reads
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 # 6.4+ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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