linux/fs/unicode
Christian Brauner a96c5299bd
unicode: free the map after a grace period
generic_ci_d_hash() and generic_ci_d_compare() read sb->s_encoding and
dereference the unicode map while a pathwalk in rcu mode holds nothing
but rcu_read_lock(). The filesystems that use them, ext4, f2fs and
tmpfs, drop the map with utf8_unload() from ->put_super(), which runs
when the last reference to the mount goes away. A lookup that is still
inside such a filesystem at that point reads a freed map.

With a pathwalk held up in utf8_casefold_hash() while the last reference
to a casefolded tmpfs goes away:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in utf8nlookup+0x74c/0x950
  Read of size 8 at addr ff110001030fe658 by task walker/98
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   utf8nlookup+0x74c/0x950
   utf8byte+0x160/0x1560
   utf8_casefold_hash+0x167/0x230
   generic_ci_d_hash+0xdd/0x1c0
   link_path_walk+0x11ad/0x1d30
   path_lookupat+0x63/0xb00
   filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0
   vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0
  [...]
  Allocated by task 94:
   __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x249/0x560
   utf8_load+0x4e/0x570
   shmem_parse_opt_casefold.isra.0+0x92/0x270
  [...]
  Freed by task 97:
   kfree+0x1db/0x5b0
   shmem_put_super+0x72/0x170
   generic_shutdown_super+0x14c/0x530
   kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60
   deactivate_locked_super+0x9c/0xf0
   cleanup_mnt+0x9f/0x130

So far that has been hard to hit. umount(2) waits for a grace period
in namespace_unlock() before it drops the mount, so only a mount whose
last reference goes away elsewhere, like the close of a file or a chdir
out of a lazily unmounted directory, can race a walker. So it is
reachable.

Delay the free until a grace period has passed. The map and the data
table it holds a reference to then outlive any pathwalk that found the
superblock before the mount went away. The reference on the data table
module is dropped from the rcu callback as well. utf8-core is built in
whenever CONFIG_UNICODE is set, so there is no module exit that would
have to wait for the callbacks.

Overlayfs points the s_encoding of an overlay at the map of its first
layer without taking a reference of its own. That stays correct. The
layer is held by the overlay, so its map is dropped only after the
overlay is gone.

Fixes: b886ee3e77 ("ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009-work-fixes-rcu-v1-6-7446d2d335e6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-10-14 22:08:03 +02:00
..
tests unicode: kunit: change tests filename and path 2025-02-12 14:00:11 -08:00
.gitignore unicode: fix .gitignore for generated utfdata file 2022-01-17 07:26:43 +02:00
Kconfig unicode: kunit: refactor selftest to kunit tests 2025-02-10 18:25:39 -08:00
Makefile unicode: kunit: change tests filename and path 2025-02-12 14:00:11 -08:00
mkutf8data.c Revert "unicode: Don't special case ignorable code points" 2024-12-11 14:11:23 -08:00
README.utf8data unicode: change the reference of database file 2024-09-13 11:23:01 -04:00
utf8-core.c unicode: free the map after a grace period 2026-10-14 22:08:03 +02:00
utf8-norm.c unicode: kunit: refactor selftest to kunit tests 2025-02-10 18:25:39 -08:00
utf8data.c_shipped Revert "unicode: Don't special case ignorable code points" 2024-12-11 14:11:23 -08:00
utf8n.h unicode: constify utf8 data table 2024-08-13 15:21:50 -04:00

The utf8data.c file in this directory is generated from the Unicode
Character Database for version 12.1.0 of the Unicode standard.

The full set of files can be found here:

  http://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/

Individual source links:

  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/CaseFolding.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedCombiningClass.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/DerivedCoreProperties.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/NormalizationCorrections.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/NormalizationTest.txt
  https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt

md5sums (verify by running "md5sum -c README.utf8data"):

  900e76da1d822a160fd6b8c0b1d70094  CaseFolding.txt
  131256380bff4fea8ad4a851616f2f10  DerivedAge.txt
  e731a4089b30002144e107e3d6f8d1fa  DerivedCombiningClass.txt
  a47c9fbd7ff92a9b261ba9831e68778a  DerivedCoreProperties.txt
  fcab6dad15e440879d92f315978f93d3  NormalizationCorrections.txt
  f9ff1c55a60decf436100f791b44aa98  NormalizationTest.txt
  755f6af699f8c8d2d958da411f78f6c6  UnicodeData.txt

sha1sums (verify by running "sha1sum -c README.utf8data"):

  dc9245f6803c4ac99555c361f5052e0b13eb779b  CaseFolding.txt
  3281104f237184cdb5d869e86eb8573678ada7da  DerivedAge.txt
  2f5f995ccb96e0fa84b15151b35d5e2681535175  DerivedCombiningClass.txt
  5b8698a3fcd5018e1987f296b02e2c17e696415e  DerivedCoreProperties.txt
  cd83935fbc012345d8792d2c704f69497e753835  NormalizationCorrections.txt
  ea419aae505b337b0d99a83fa83fe58ddff7c19f  NormalizationTest.txt
  dc973c0fc93d6f09d9ab9f70d1c9f89c447f0526  UnicodeData.txt


To update to the newer version of the Unicode standard, the latest
released version of the UCD can be found here:

  http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/

Then, build under fs/unicode/ with REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1:

	make REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 fs/unicode/

After sanity checking the newly generated utf8data.c file (the
version generated from the 12.1.0 UCD should be 4,109 lines long, and
have a total size of 324k) and/or comparing it with the older version
of utf8data.c_shipped, rename it to utf8data.c_shipped.

If you are a kernel developer updating to a newer version of the
Unicode Character Database, please update this README.utf8data file
with the version of the UCD that was used, the md5sum and sha1sums of
the *.txt files, before checking in the new versions of the utf8data.c
and README.utf8data files.