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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:35:01 +0200
From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
To: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
Cc: Slava.Dubeyko@....com, xiubli@...hat.com, amarkuze@...hat.com,
ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, brauner@...nel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/ceph/addr: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks()
error
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com> wrote:
>
> The function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit
> ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method") by
> moving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function.
>
> This new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked
> by the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the
> caller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the
> loop.
>
> However, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it
> always returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and
> then returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0. This means errors are
> silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may
> later crash the kernel.
>
> The simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer.
>
> Fixes: ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/aK4v548CId5GIKG1@swift.blarg.de/
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
> ---
> fs/ceph/addr.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
> index 8b202d789e93..e3e0d477f3f7 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
> @@ -1264,7 +1264,9 @@ static inline int move_dirty_folio_in_page_array(struct address_space *mapping,
> 0,
> gfp_flags);
> if (IS_ERR(pages[index])) {
> - if (PTR_ERR(pages[index]) == -EINVAL) {
> + int err = PTR_ERR(pages[index]);
> +
> + if (err == -EINVAL) {
> pr_err_client(cl, "inode->i_blkbits=%hhu\n",
> inode->i_blkbits);
> }
> @@ -1273,7 +1275,7 @@ static inline int move_dirty_folio_in_page_array(struct address_space *mapping,
> BUG_ON(ceph_wbc->locked_pages == 0);
>
> pages[index] = NULL;
> - return PTR_ERR(pages[index]);
> + return err;
> }
> } else {
> pages[index] = &folio->page;
> --
> 2.47.2
>
Queued up for 6.17-rc6.
Thanks,
Ilya
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