A ceph mount oopses in ceph_readdir() when the MDS answers a READDIR request with a reply whose extra blob is empty. parse_reply_info() skips reply blobs whose length is zero, so parse_reply_info_readdir() never runs, r_reply_info.dir_dir stays NULL, and the reply still parses as successful. ceph_mdsc_do_request() returns 0 and ceph_readdir() then reads rinfo->dir_dir->frag with no NULL check: /* extra */ ceph_decode_32_safe(&p, end, len, bad); if (len > 0) { ... err = parse_reply_info_extra(&p, p + len, req, features, s); ... } The oops on v7.3.0-rc4-00537-ga3ff15db6820, one getdents64(2) on the mount root after an ms_mode=legacy mount, trimmed: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 266 Comm: ls Tainted: G N 7.3.0-rc4-00537-ga3ff15db6820 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) RIP: 0010:ceph_readdir+0xbff/0x3ea0 Call Trace: ? __pfx_ceph_readdir+0x10/0x10 wrap_directory_iterator+0xa2/0xe0 iterate_dir+0x1da/0x5d0 __x64_sys_getdents64+0x13b/0x2a0 do_syscall_64+0xdd/0x4a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The unconditional frag read came in with 81c6aea5275ea ("ceph: handle frag mismatch between readdir request and reply"), so the bug is old. Treat a reply with no dirfrag as a protocol violation: warn once, drop the request and return -EIO, the same way ceph_readdir() already handles the two malformed-reply cases later in the function. Tested on v7.3.0-rc4-00537-ga3ff15db6820 (KASAN). Unpatched, the getdents64(2) above takes the machine down (oops=panic) on the first READDIR reply. With the patch it warns once and getdents64(2) returns -EIO, no oops, no hang. A conformant reply for an empty directory — dirfrag present, zero entries, FRAG_END|FRAG_COMPLETE — still lists "." and ".." and returns EOF on both kernels, so normal readdir behavior is unchanged. The oops is still present in v7.3-rc5 (72d3fcf802c45). Fixes: 81c6aea5275ea ("ceph: handle frag mismatch between readdir request and reply") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yuanfu Xie --- fs/ceph/dir.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ceph/dir.c b/fs/ceph/dir.c index 2e5c0ccb1b346..d7d48d3c3baf0 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/dir.c +++ b/fs/ceph/dir.c @@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ static int ceph_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) (int)req->r_reply_info.hash_order); rinfo = &req->r_reply_info; + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!rinfo->dir_dir)) { + ceph_mdsc_put_request(req); + return -EIO; + } if (le32_to_cpu(rinfo->dir_dir->frag) != frag) { frag = le32_to_cpu(rinfo->dir_dir->frag); if (!rinfo->hash_order) { -- 2.43.0