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Message-ID: <00000000000003ce5b061e0b618f@google.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:08:01 -0700
From: syzbot <syzbot+1a8e2b31f2ac9bd3d148@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [syzbot] Re: [syzbot] [f2fs?] KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread

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Subject: Re: [syzbot] [f2fs?] KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
Author: lizhi.xu@...driver.com

before thread stop and free gc_thread, set sbi->gc_thread to NULL

#syz test: upstream 2c9b3512402e

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 6066c6eecf41..363f95237383 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -204,13 +204,16 @@ int f2fs_start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 void f2fs_stop_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
 	struct f2fs_gc_kthread *gc_th = sbi->gc_thread;
+	static DEFINE_MUTEX(gct_mutex);
 
 	if (!gc_th)
 		return;
+	mutex_lock(&gct_mutex);
+	sbi->gc_thread = NULL;
 	kthread_stop(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task);
 	wake_up_all(&gc_th->fggc_wq);
 	kfree(gc_th);
-	sbi->gc_thread = NULL;
+	mutex_unlock(&gct_mutex);
 }
 
 static int select_gc_type(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type)