linux/fs
Darrick J. Wong 7dfb218c82 xfs: fix exchange-range-to-eof file size exchange
Norbert Szetei posted a patch containing an incomplete description of a
bug in XFS_IOC_EXCHANGE_RANGE's TO_EOF flag.  The bug tricks
exchange-range into modifying a file so that it has shared blocks
starting beyond EOF, which is never allowed because files never have
written data beyond EOF, and you can only share written data blocks.
This is key to all the incorrect behavior that follows.

Eventually I got from Norbert a description of what's going wrong:

> Fair. Here it is with physical block numbers, 4k blocks. peer is the file
> that gets rewritten and file1 is the one that ends up with the flag
> cleared.
>
> Start, nothing shared:
>
>	peer size 4096   -> [100]
>	file1 size 12288 -> [200] [201] [202]
>	donor1 size 4096 -> [300]
>	donor2 size 4096 -> [400]
>
> 1. FICLONERANGE peer's block into file1's middle slot:
>
>	peer size 4096   -> [100]
>	file1 size 12288 -> [200] [100] [202] reflink flag set
>                             ^^^^^ both files own block 100
>
> 2. XFS_IOC_EXCHANGE_RANGE file1 against donor1, file1_offset 0,
> file2_offset 8192, length 0, TO_EOF. One block is exchanged, and the sizes
> are exchanged with it:
>
>	file1 size 4096   -> [200] [100] [300] reflink flag set
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^ still owned, now past the size
>	donor1 size 12288 -> [202]
>
> file1 says it is one block long while it still owns three. Nothing was
> unmapped. file2_offset is block 2, so this exchange cannot clear a flag.
>
> 3. XFS_IOC_EXCHANGE_RANGE file1 against donor2, both offsets 0, length 4096.
> By i_disk_size this is two one-block files exchanging everything, so
> xmi_can_exchange_reflink_flags() agrees and the flag is cleared:
>
>	file1 size 4096   -> [400] [100] [300] reflink flag CLEARED
>	donor2 size 4096  -> [200]
>
> Block 100 is still shared with peer.
>
> 4. pwrite(file1, 4096, 4096), which is file1's second slot, block 100.
> xfs_is_cow_inode(file1) is false, so no CoW:
>
>	peer size 4096 -> [100] same block, new contents
>
> Block 100 is the only one that matters here. PoC below, it reads a file
> called peer in the current directory. The filesystem needs reflink and
> exchange-range, which mkfs.xfs 7.x turns on by default.

So yes, TO_EOF is screwing up the file size even if it's actually
exchanging the data block correctly.  The following is the intended
behavior of XFS_EXCHANGE_RANGE_TO_EOF, as described by its manpage:

"Ignore the length parameter.  All bytes in file1_fd from file1_offset
 to EOF are moved to file2_fd, and file2's size is set to
 (file2_offset+(file1_length-file1_offset)).  Meanwhile, all bytes in
 file2 from file2_offset to EOF are moved to file1 and file1's size is
 set to (file1_offset+(file2_length-file2_offset))."

In other words, if we only exchange a portion of the file data, then we
should only exchange the portion of the file size that relates to the
exchanged data.  Unfortunately, the code swaps the ondisk file size and
the incore file sizes, which is incorrect if the caller passes in a
nonzero offset.

Having confused the file sizes, the PoC uses a second exchange-range
call on what looks like a non-reflinked single-block file.  Because the
file size is set incorrectly, exchange-range thinks it's exchanging the
full contents of two files and clears the reflink flag on the broken
file.  That enables an extending write of the broken file to rewrite the
shared block that's just past EOF.  This has become known colloquially
as refluxfs.

Once the file sizes are set correctly, the second exchange-range no
longer thinks that it's doing a full-contents swap, so it won't clear
the reflink flag on either of its file arguments.

Norbert followed up to an earlier version of this patch with a second
complaint about us not handling the i_disk_size state correctly:

> The offsets are bounded against the incore i_size but subtracted from
> the ondisk i_disk_size, so a file that has not been written back gives
> xmi_isize1 = 0 + (0 - 12288).
>
> For instance, you can do:
>
> $ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -q 0 4096" -c fsync file1
> $ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -q 0 12288" \
>   -c "exchangerange -s 0 -d 12288 file1" dirty
> $ stat -c %s file1
> 0
> $ stat -c %i file1
> 131
> $ sudo xfs_io -r -c "bulkstat_single 131" . | grep bs_size
> bs_size = 18446744073709539328

That's wrong, and the new file size update logic depends on the ondisk
i_disk_size matching the incore i_size, so flush the pagecache as needed
to push it upwards.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/1E196589-DEBE-40AC-AFEA-D420DAAB067F@doyensec.com/
Reported-by: Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10
Fixes: 966ceafc7a ("xfs: create deferred log items for file mapping exchanges")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
2026-10-11 08:23:43 +02:00
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configfs configfs: unhash the dentry before dropping the item in rmdir 2026-09-07 09:15:05 -07:00
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xfs xfs: fix exchange-range-to-eof file size exchange 2026-10-11 08:23:43 +02:00
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attr.c fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare() 2026-07-28 21:25:03 -07:00
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binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc_bpf.c binfmt_misc: fix racy checks in bpf set_interp kfuncs 2026-09-18 11:20:55 +02:00
binfmt_misc.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
binfmt_script.c
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buffer.c for-7.3/block-20260819 2026-08-20 13:55:16 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
coredump.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
d_path.c fs: add failfs 2026-07-27 17:17:59 +02:00
dax.c fs/dax: check zero or empty entry before converting xarray entry 2026-09-05 11:47:49 -07:00
dcache.c dcache: don't put a mountpoint on a dentry that's being removed 2026-10-01 14:20:07 +02:00
direct-io.c
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c vfs-7.3-rc1.misc 2026-08-17 12:56:12 -07:00
exec.c sched/cache: Introduce task_struct->sched_cache_grp to fix UAF 2026-09-22 10:50:43 +02:00
failfs.c fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchdir() 2026-07-27 17:17:59 +02:00
fcntl.c fcntl: refuse F_SET_RW_HINT on an immutable inode 2026-10-04 12:31:38 +02:00
fhandle.c fhandle: decide the subtree check under mount_lock 2026-10-04 12:31:40 +02:00
file_attr.c
file_table.c namespace: drop the file's reference first in dissolve_on_fput() 2026-09-26 15:47:41 +02:00
file.c
filesystems.c fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall 2026-08-12 11:36:40 +02:00
fs_context.c namespace: don't reconfigure internal superblocks via remount and umount 2026-10-01 14:20:07 +02:00
fs_dirent.c
fs_parser.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c fs: stop rewriting paths for PF_EXITING | PF_DUMPCORE 2026-06-29 10:54:43 +02:00
fs-writeback.c writeback: bound cleanup_offline_cgwb() rescans by rotating scanned inodes 2026-09-17 12:32:51 +02:00
fserror.c
fsopen.c namespace: don't reconfigure internal superblocks via remount and umount 2026-10-01 14:20:07 +02:00
init.c
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Kconfig.binfmt binfmt_misc: add binfmt_misc_ops bpf struct_ops 2026-08-03 10:08:41 +02:00
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libfs.c fs: Provide way for filesystem to wait for metadata writeback 2026-07-27 16:25:32 +02:00
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mbcache.c
mnt_idmapping.c
mount.h namespace: rework connected mounts 2026-10-07 00:45:49 +02:00
mpage.c
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namespace.c namespace: simplify disconnect_mount() 2026-10-07 00:45:50 +02:00
nsfs.c vfs-7.2-rc1.misc 2026-06-15 03:59:45 +05:30
nullfs.c nullfs: add an empty immutable regular file 2026-10-07 00:45:49 +02:00
open.c fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchroot() 2026-07-27 17:18:00 +02:00
pidfs.c vfs-7.3-rc1.misc 2026-08-17 12:56:12 -07:00
pipe.c Summary 2026-08-20 08:46:41 -07:00
pnode.c namespace: rework connected mounts 2026-10-07 00:45:49 +02:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c vfs-7.3-rc1.misc 2026-08-17 12:56:12 -07:00
proc_namespace.c fs: add real_fs to track task's actual fs_struct 2026-06-29 10:43:45 +02:00
read_write.c
readdir.c readdir: take no inode lock on an immutable directory 2026-10-04 12:36:13 +02:00
remap_range.c
select.c vfs-7.2-rc1.misc 2026-06-15 03:59:45 +05:30
seq_file.c seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path 2026-07-31 10:09:14 +02:00
signalfd.c
splice.c
stack.c
stat.c fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors 2026-07-31 10:09:11 +02:00
statfs.c
super.c vfs-7.3-rc5.fixes 2026-09-25 11:12:06 -07:00
sync.c
sysctls.c
timerfd.c
utimes.c
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