kernel/linux.git/fs/ext4, branch v5.15.214

ext4: fix LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to allow ordered-mode data writeback

2026-07-24T13:51:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit d99748ef1695ce17eaf51c64b7a06952fa7cddab ] In EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_LOGFLUSH mode, the EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN flag was set before calling ext4_force_commit(). This caused ordered-mode data writeback (triggered by journal commit) to fail with -EIO, since ext4_do_writepages() checks for the shutdown flag. The journal would then be aborted prematurely before the commit could succeed. Fix this by calling ext4_force_commit() first, then setting the shutdown flag, so that pending data can be written back correctly. Note that moving ext4_force_commit() before setting the shutdown flag creates a small window in which new writes may occur and generate new journal transactions. When the journal is subsequently aborted, the new transactions will not be able to write to disk. This is intentional because LOGFLUSH's semantics are to flush pre-existing journal entries before shutdown, not to guarantee atomicity for writes that race with the ioctl. Fixes: 783d94854499 ("ext4: add EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424104201.1930823-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: add bounds check for inline data length in ext4_read_inline_page

2026-07-04T11:39:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit 356227096eb66e41b23caf7045e6304877322edf ] ext4_read_inline_page() does not validate that the inline data length fits within a page before copying data. If the inline size exceeds PAGE_SIZE due to filesystem corruption, this could lead to a kernel memory write beyond the page boundary. Add a bounds check after computing len, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the value exceeds PAGE_SIZE. The upstream commit replaced a BUG_ON(len > PAGE_SIZE) in ext4_read_inline_folio(). In 6.1 and earlier, the function is still named ext4_read_inline_page() and the BUG_ON was never present, so this patch adds the bounds check directly. Fixes: 46c7f254543d ("ext4: add read support for inline data") Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes

2026-06-19T11:33:34+00:00

commit 2acb5c12ebd860f30e4faf67e6cc8c44ddfe5fe8 upstream. ext4_ext_correct_indexes() walks up the extent tree correcting index entries when the first extent in a leaf is modified. Before accessing path[k].p_idx->ei_block, there is no validation that p_idx falls within the valid range of index entries for that level. If the on-disk extent header contains a corrupted or crafted eh_entries value, p_idx can point past the end of the allocated buffer, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read. Fix this by validating path[k].p_idx against EXT_LAST_INDEX() at both access sites: before the while loop and inside it. Return -EFSCORRUPTED if the index pointer is out of range, consistent with how other bounds violations are handled in the ext4 extent tree code. Reported-by: syzbot+04c4e65cab786a2e5b7e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=04c4e65cab786a2e5b7e Signed-off-by: Tejas Bharambe Link: https://patch.msgid.link/JH0PR06MB66326016F9B6AD24097D232B897CA@JH0PR06MB6632.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org [ Alexey: Adapt goto clean to break because the clean error path is not present in linux-5.10.y and linux-5.15.y. ] Signed-off-by: Alexey Panov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()

2026-06-01T15:35:17+00:00

commit 77d059519382bd66283e6a4e83ee186e87e7708f upstream. The commit c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end") introduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false. ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to get iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse(). Fixes: c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end") Signed-off-by: Sohei Koyama Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406074830.8480-1-skoyama@ddn.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix use-after-free in update_super_work when racing with umount

2026-04-18T08:33:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit d15e4b0a418537aafa56b2cb80d44add83e83697 ] Commit b98535d09179 ("ext4: fix bug_on in start_this_handle during umount filesystem") moved ext4_unregister_sysfs() before flushing s_sb_upd_work to prevent new error work from being queued via /proc/fs/ext4/xx/mb_groups reads during unmount. However, this introduced a use-after-free because update_super_work calls ext4_notify_error_sysfs() -> sysfs_notify() which accesses the kobject's kernfs_node after it has been freed by kobject_del() in ext4_unregister_sysfs(): update_super_work ext4_put_super ----------------- -------------- ext4_unregister_sysfs(sb) kobject_del(&sbi->s_kobj) __kobject_del() sysfs_remove_dir() kobj->sd = NULL sysfs_put(sd) kernfs_put() // RCU free ext4_notify_error_sysfs(sbi) sysfs_notify(&sbi->s_kobj) kn = kobj->sd // stale pointer kernfs_get(kn) // UAF on freed kernfs_node ext4_journal_destroy() flush_work(&sbi->s_sb_upd_work) Instead of reordering the teardown sequence, fix this by making ext4_notify_error_sysfs() detect that sysfs has already been torn down by checking s_kobj.state_in_sysfs, and skipping the sysfs_notify() call in that case. A dedicated mutex (s_error_notify_mutex) serializes ext4_notify_error_sysfs() against kobject_del() in ext4_unregister_sysfs() to prevent TOCTOU races where the kobject could be deleted between the state_in_sysfs check and the sysfs_notify() call. Fixes: b98535d09179 ("ext4: fix bug_on in start_this_handle during umount filesystem") Cc: Jiayuan Chen Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319120336.157873-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org [ adapted mutex_init placement ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix the might_sleep() warnings in kvfree()

2026-04-18T08:33:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 496bb99b7e66f48b178126626f47e9ba79e2d0fa ] Use the kvfree() in the RCU read critical section can trigger the following warnings: EXT4-fs (vdb): unmounting filesystem cd983e5b-3c83-4f5a-a136-17b00eb9d018. WARNING: suspicious RCU usage ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:409 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xbb/0xd0 dump_stack+0x14/0x20 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x15a/0x1b0 __might_resched+0x375/0x4d0 ? put_object.part.0+0x2c/0x50 __might_sleep+0x108/0x160 vfree+0x58/0x910 ? ext4_group_desc_free+0x27/0x270 kvfree+0x23/0x40 ext4_group_desc_free+0x111/0x270 ext4_put_super+0x3c8/0xd40 generic_shutdown_super+0x14c/0x4a0 ? __pfx_shrinker_free+0x10/0x10 kill_block_super+0x40/0x90 ext4_kill_sb+0x6d/0xb0 deactivate_locked_super+0xb4/0x180 deactivate_super+0x7e/0xa0 cleanup_mnt+0x296/0x3e0 __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20 task_work_run+0x157/0x250 ? __pfx_task_work_run+0x10/0x10 ? exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x6a/0x550 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x102/0x550 do_syscall_64+0x44a/0x500 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/vmalloc.c:3441 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 556, name: umount preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 556 Comm: umount Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xbb/0xd0 dump_stack+0x14/0x20 __might_resched+0x275/0x4d0 ? put_object.part.0+0x2c/0x50 __might_sleep+0x108/0x160 vfree+0x58/0x910 ? ext4_group_desc_free+0x27/0x270 kvfree+0x23/0x40 ext4_group_desc_free+0x111/0x270 ext4_put_super+0x3c8/0xd40 generic_shutdown_super+0x14c/0x4a0 ? __pfx_shrinker_free+0x10/0x10 kill_block_super+0x40/0x90 ext4_kill_sb+0x6d/0xb0 deactivate_locked_super+0xb4/0x180 deactivate_super+0x7e/0xa0 cleanup_mnt+0x296/0x3e0 __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20 task_work_run+0x157/0x250 ? __pfx_task_work_run+0x10/0x10 ? exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x6a/0x550 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x102/0x550 do_syscall_64+0x44a/0x500 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The above scenarios occur in initialization failures and teardown paths, there are no parallel operations on the resources released by kvfree(), this commit therefore remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() and use rcu_access_pointer() instead of rcu_dereference() operations. Fixes: 7c990728b99e ("ext4: fix potential race between s_flex_groups online resizing and access") Fixes: df3da4ea5a0f ("ext4: fix potential race between s_group_info online resizing and access") Signed-off-by: Zqiang Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319094545.19291-1-qiang.zhang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org [ adapted fix to inlined teardown code ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: publish jinode after initialization

2026-04-18T08:33:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1aec30021edd410b986c156f195f3d23959a9d11 ] ext4_inode_attach_jinode() publishes ei->jinode to concurrent users. It used to set ei->jinode before jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(), allowing a reader to observe a non-NULL jinode with i_vfs_inode still unset. The fast commit flush path can then pass this jinode to jbd2_wait_inode_data(), which dereferences i_vfs_inode->i_mapping and may crash. Below is the crash I observe: ``` BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000010beb47f4 PGD 110e51067 P4D 110e51067 PUD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 4850 Comm: fc_fsync_bench_ Not tainted 6.18.0-00764-g795a690c06a5 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:xas_find_marked+0x3d/0x2e0 Code: e0 03 48 83 f8 02 0f 84 f0 01 00 00 48 8b 47 08 48 89 c3 48 39 c6 0f 82 fd 01 00 00 48 85 c9 74 3d 48 83 f9 03 77 63 4c 8b 0f <49> 8b 71 08 48 c7 47 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 f1 83 e1 03 48 83 f9 02 RSP: 0018:ffffbbee806e7bf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 000000000010beb4 RBX: 000000000010beb4 RCX: 0000000000000003 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000002000300000 RDI: ffffbbee806e7c10 RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000002000300000 R09: 000000010beb47ec R10: ffff9ea494590090 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000002000300000 R13: ffffbbee806e7c90 R14: ffff9ea494513788 R15: ffffbbee806e7c88 FS: 00007fc2f9e3e6c0(0000) GS:ffff9ea6b1444000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000010beb47f4 CR3: 0000000119ac5000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: filemap_get_folios_tag+0x87/0x2a0 __filemap_fdatawait_range+0x5f/0xd0 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? __schedule+0x3e7/0x10c0 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? preempt_count_sub+0x5f/0x80 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? cap_safe_nice+0x37/0x70 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? preempt_count_sub+0x5f/0x80 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors+0x12/0x40 ext4_fc_commit+0x697/0x8b0 ? ext4_file_write_iter+0x64b/0x950 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? preempt_count_sub+0x5f/0x80 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? vfs_write+0x356/0x480 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? preempt_count_sub+0x5f/0x80 ext4_sync_file+0xf7/0x370 do_fsync+0x3b/0x80 ? syscall_trace_enter+0x108/0x1d0 __x64_sys_fdatasync+0x16/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x62/0x2c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ... ``` Fix this by initializing the jbd2_inode first. Use smp_wmb() and WRITE_ONCE() to publish ei->jinode after initialization. Readers use READ_ONCE() to fetch the pointer. Fixes: a361293f5fede ("jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_file_inode()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Li Chen Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225082617.147957-1-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org [ adapted READ_ONCE(jinode) wrapping to split ext4_fc_submit_inode_data_all() and ext4_fc_wait_inode_data_all() ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: always drain queued discard work in ext4_mb_release()

2026-04-18T08:33:28+00:00

commit 9ee29d20aab228adfb02ca93f87fb53c56c2f3af upstream. While reviewing recent ext4 patch[1], Sashiko raised the following concern[2]: > If the filesystem is initially mounted with the discard option, > deleting files will populate sbi->s_discard_list and queue > s_discard_work. If it is then remounted with nodiscard, the > EXT4_MOUNT_DISCARD flag is cleared, but the pending s_discard_work is > neither cancelled nor flushed. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260319094545.19291-1-qiang.zhang@linux.dev/ [2] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319094545.19291-1-qiang.zhang%40linux.dev The concern was valid, but it had nothing to do with the patch[1]. One of the problems with Sashiko in its current (early) form is that it will detect pre-existing issues and report it as a problem with the patch that it is reviewing. In practice, it would be hard to hit deliberately (unless you are a malicious syzkaller fuzzer), since it would involve mounting the file system with -o discard, and then deleting a large number of files, remounting the file system with -o nodiscard, and then immediately unmounting the file system before the queued discard work has a change to drain on its own. Fix it because it's a real bug, and to avoid Sashiko from raising this concern when analyzing future patches to mballoc.c. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Fixes: 55cdd0af2bc5 ("ext4: get discard out of jbd2 commit kthread contex") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_fc_replay_inode() error paths

2026-04-18T08:33:28+00:00

commit ec0a7500d8eace5b4f305fa0c594dd148f0e8d29 upstream. During code review, Joseph found that ext4_fc_replay_inode() calls ext4_get_fc_inode_loc() to get the inode location, which holds a reference to iloc.bh that must be released via brelse(). However, several error paths jump to the 'out' label without releasing iloc.bh: - ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() failure - sync_dirty_buffer() failure - ext4_mark_inode_used() failure - ext4_iget() failure Fix this by introducing an 'out_brelse' label placed just before the existing 'out' label to ensure iloc.bh is always released. Additionally, make ext4_fc_replay_inode() propagate errors properly instead of always returning 0. Reported-by: Joseph Qi Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323060836.3452660-1-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: reject mount if bigalloc with s_first_data_block != 0

2026-04-18T08:33:28+00:00

commit 3822743dc20386d9897e999dbb990befa3a5b3f8 upstream. bigalloc with s_first_data_block != 0 is not supported, reject mounting it. Signed-off-by: Helen Koike Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o Reported-by: syzbot+b73703b873a33d8eb8f6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b73703b873a33d8eb8f6 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317142325.135074-1-koike@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman