kernel/linux.git/fs/buffer.c, branch v6.1.168

fs/buffer: add alert in try_to_free_buffers() for folios without buffers

2026-03-04T12:20:11+00:00

[ Upstream commit b68f91ef3b3fe82ad78c417de71b675699a8467c ] try_to_free_buffers() can be called on folios with no buffers attached when filemap_release_folio() is invoked on a folio belonging to a mapping with AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS set but no release_folio operation defined. In such cases, folio_needs_release() returns true because of the AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag, but the folio has no private buffer data. This causes try_to_free_buffers() to call drop_buffers() on a folio with no buffers, leading to a null pointer dereference. Adding a check in try_to_free_buffers() to return early if the folio has no buffers attached, with WARN_ON_ONCE() to alert about the misconfiguration. This provides defensive hardening. Signed-off-by: Deepakkumar Karn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211131211.308021-1-dkarn@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs/buffer: fix use-after-free when call bh_read() helper

2025-08-28T14:26:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7375f22495e7cd1c5b3b5af9dcc4f6dffe34ce49 ] There's issue as follows: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in end_buffer_read_sync+0xe3/0x110 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc9000168f7f8 by task swapper/3/0 CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 6.16.0-862.14.0.6.x86_64 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x390 print_report+0xb4/0x270 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 end_buffer_read_sync+0xe3/0x110 end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x56/0x80 blk_update_request+0x30a/0x720 scsi_end_request+0x51/0x2b0 scsi_io_completion+0xe3/0x480 ? scsi_device_unbusy+0x11e/0x160 blk_complete_reqs+0x7b/0x90 handle_softirqs+0xef/0x370 irq_exit_rcu+0xa5/0xd0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x90 Above issue happens when do ntfs3 filesystem mount, issue may happens as follows: mount IRQ ntfs_fill_super read_cache_page do_read_cache_folio filemap_read_folio mpage_read_folio do_mpage_readpage ntfs_get_block_vbo bh_read submit_bh wait_on_buffer(bh); blk_complete_reqs scsi_io_completion scsi_end_request blk_update_request end_bio_bh_io_sync end_buffer_read_sync __end_buffer_read_notouch unlock_buffer wait_on_buffer(bh);--> return will return to caller put_bh --> trigger stack-out-of-bounds In the mpage_read_folio() function, the stack variable 'map_bh' is passed to ntfs_get_block_vbo(). Once unlock_buffer() unlocks and wait_on_buffer() returns to continue processing, the stack variable is likely to be reclaimed. Consequently, during the end_buffer_read_sync() process, calling put_bh() may result in stack overrun. If the bh is not allocated on the stack, it belongs to a folio. Freeing a buffer head which belongs to a folio is done by drop_buffers() which will fail to free buffers which are still locked. So it is safe to call put_bh() before __end_buffer_read_notouch(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250811141830.343774-1-yebin@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-12T18:00:22+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco) - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic (Valentin Schneider) - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei) - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu counters (Jiebin Sun) - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi) - lots of other single patches all over the tree! * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies ia64: update config files nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure fork: remove duplicate included header files init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions proc: mark more files as permanent nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse() checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion() ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...

mm: fs: initialize fsdata passed to write_begin/write_end interface

2022-10-03T21:03:25+00:00

Functions implementing the a_ops->write_end() interface accept the `void *fsdata` parameter that is supposed to be initialized by the corresponding a_ops->write_begin() (which accepts `void **fsdata`). However not all a_ops->write_begin() implementations initialize `fsdata` unconditionally, so it may get passed uninitialized to a_ops->write_end(), resulting in undefined behavior. Fix this by initializing fsdata with NULL before the call to write_begin(), rather than doing so in all possible a_ops implementations. This patch covers only the following cases found by running x86 KMSAN under syzkaller: - generic_perform_write() - cont_expand_zero() and generic_cont_expand_simple() - page_symlink() Other cases of passing uninitialized fsdata may persist in the codebase. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-43-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/buffer: make submit_bh & submit_bh_wbc return type as void

2022-09-30T03:01:40+00:00

submit_bh/submit_bh_wbc are non-blocking functions which just submit the bio and return. The caller of submit_bh/submit_bh_wbc needs to wait on buffer till I/O completion and then check buffer head's b_state field to know if there was any I/O error. Hence there is no need for these functions to have any return type. Even now they always returns 0. Hence drop the return value and make their return type as void to avoid any confusion. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cb66ef823374cdd94d2d03083ce13de844fffd41.1660788334.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

fs/buffer: drop useless return value of submit_bh

2022-09-30T03:01:40+00:00

submit_bh always returns 0. This patch drops the useless return value of submit_bh from __sync_dirty_buffer(). Once all of submit_bh callers are cleaned up, we can make it's return type as void. Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a98a6ddfac68f73d684c2724952e825bc1f4d238.1660788334.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

buffer: use try_cmpxchg in discard_buffer

2022-09-12T04:55:07+00:00

Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in discard_buffer. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg). Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg fails, enabling further code simplifications. Note that the value from *ptr should be read using READ_ONCE to prevent the compiler from merging, refetching or reordering the read. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220714171653.12128-1-ubizjak@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/buffer: remove bh_submit_read() helper

2022-09-12T03:26:08+00:00

bh_submit_read() has no user anymore, just remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-15-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/buffer: remove ll_rw_block() helper

2022-09-12T03:26:08+00:00

Now that all ll_rw_block() users has been replaced to new safe helpers, we just remove it here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-13-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton