Commit 35007c7
CKI Backport Bot
ext4: only dirty folios when data journaling regular files
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-91256
commit e26268f
Author: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Date: Fri May 16 13:38:00 2025 -0400
ext4: only dirty folios when data journaling regular files
fstest generic/388 occasionally reproduces a crash that looks as
follows:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext4_block_zero_page_range+0x30c/0x380 [ext4]
ext4_truncate+0x436/0x440 [ext4]
ext4_process_orphan+0x5d/0x110 [ext4]
ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x124/0x4f0 [ext4]
ext4_fill_super+0x262d/0x3110 [ext4]
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x132/0x1d0
vfs_get_tree+0x26/0xd0
vfs_cmd_create+0x59/0xe0
__do_sys_fsconfig+0x4ed/0x6b0
do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170
...
This occurs when processing a symlink inode from the orphan list. The
partial block zeroing code in the truncate path calls
ext4_dirty_journalled_data() -> folio_mark_dirty(). The latter calls
mapping->a_ops->dirty_folio(), but symlink inodes are not assigned an
a_ops vector in ext4, hence the crash.
To avoid this problem, update the ext4_dirty_journalled_data() helper to
only mark the folio dirty on regular files (for which a_ops is
assigned). This also matches the journaling logic in the ext4_symlink()
creation path, where ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() is called directly.
Fixes: d84c9eb ("ext4: Mark pages with journalled data dirty")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250516173800.175577-1-bfoster@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: CKI Backport Bot <cki-ci-bot+cki-gitlab-backport-bot@redhat.com>1 parent 64c58bb commit 35007c7
1 file changed
+6
-1
lines changed| Original file line number | Diff line number | Diff line change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
998 | 998 | | |
999 | 999 | | |
1000 | 1000 | | |
1001 | | - | |
| 1001 | + | |
| 1002 | + | |
| 1003 | + | |
| 1004 | + | |
| 1005 | + | |
| 1006 | + | |
1002 | 1007 | | |
1003 | 1008 | | |
1004 | 1009 | | |
| |||
0 commit comments