kernel/git/stable/linux.git/fs/ext4, branch linux-6.6.y

ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay

2026-09-02T12:29:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit d8b8dd3530bf41e14b118702cdaf9de64bb96885 ] ext4_fc_replay() stops replaying fast commit tags only when a tag handler returns a negative error. However, ext4_fc_replay_add_range() and ext4_fc_replay_del_range() currently return 0 from their common exit paths even after internal failures. This hides errors from ext4_fc_record_modified_inode(), ext4_map_blocks(), ext4_find_extent(), ext4_ext_insert_extent(), ext4_ext_replay_update_ex(), and ext4_ext_remove_space(). As a result, a failed ADD_RANGE or DEL_RANGE replay can be treated as successful and the replay code may continue with subsequent fast commit tags. This is particularly problematic for DEL_RANGE because it may already have marked blocks as free before ext4_ext_remove_space() fails. If the error is swallowed, replay may continue from a partially applied range operation. Return the saved error from the common exit paths and make the ERR_PTR() cases in ADD_RANGE store PTR_ERR() before jumping to out. Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guanghui Yang <3497809730@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_E3622146846A84C75C31C7D32AC4D5AD0605@qq.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: make some fast commit functions reuse extents path

2026-09-02T12:29:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2352e3e461926b59f01c1e39fbb0494891cff997 ] The ext4_find_extent() can update the extent path so that it does not have to allocate and free the path repeatedly, thus reducing the consumption of memory allocation and freeing in the following functions: ext4_ext_clear_bb ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks ext4_fc_replay_add_range ext4_fc_set_bitmaps_and_counters No functional changes. Note that ext4_find_extent() does not support error pointers, so in this case set path to NULL first. Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-25-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Stable-dep-of: d8b8dd3530bf ("ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: make state in ext4_mb_mark_bb to be bool

2026-09-02T12:29:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit d2f7cf40ea89b486fb7a25f5ab9a5d3ce26fb4bb ] As state could only be either 0 or 1, just make it bool. Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi Reviewed-by: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928160407.142069-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Stable-dep-of: d8b8dd3530bf ("ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files

2026-09-02T12:29:16+00:00

commit da32af420d6d466e247c43ac0b829edeac7ae0ad upstream. Currently, when a new encrypted regular file is created, the call to ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, init=true) in __ext4_new_inode() is made before EXT4_INODE_ENCRYPT is set. As a result, it can set S_DAX if the filesystem is mounted with "-o dax=always". EXT4_INODE_ENCRYPT then actually gets set a bit later in __ext4_new_inode(), when it calls fscrypt_set_context() which calls ext4_set_context(). ext4_set_context() sets EXT4_INODE_ENCRYPT and calls ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, init=false) to set S_ENCRYPTED too. This was intended to clear S_DAX as well. However, this was broken by commit 043546e46dc7 ("fs/ext4: Only change S_DAX on inode load"). This causes data written to the file to bypass encryption, also causing xfstests failures such as generic/548 (when "-o dax=always" is used). Fix this by simplifying the flow by making __ext4_new_inode() set EXT4_INODE_ENCRYPT earlier. This makes it take effect in ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, init=true), making S_DAX never be set. Similarly, make EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA never be set in the first place on new encrypted inodes. Then it doesn't need to be cleared. As a result of these simplifications, ext4_set_context() no longer needs to change inode flags or state when 'handle != NULL'. Remove that too. Reported-by: Disha Goel Reported-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260723085648.1500357-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com Fixes: 043546e46dc7 ("fs/ext4: Only change S_DAX on inode load") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Tested-by: Disha Goel Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730175212.36923-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback

2026-08-27T12:29:45+00:00

commit 409a7f12a0933ff2c617fa814c76cef0bd1d457a upstream. When ext4_xattr_make_inode_space() returns -ENOSPC, ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea() can retry the expansion with s_min_extra_isize. If that retry succeeds by finding enough ibody free space, control jumps directly to the shift label. The previous -ENOSPC is still stored in error in that path, so the function can update i_extra_isize but still return -ENOSPC to the caller. Clear error before retrying so a successful fallback expansion returns success. Reproduced with an ext4 image using 1 KiB blocks, project quota support, 256-byte inodes, and min_extra_isize/want_extra_isize set to 32. FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR failures dropped from 802 to 86 after the fix. Fixes: 69f3a3039b0d ("ext4: introduce ITAIL helper") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guanghui Yang <3497809730@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_192F8A699EFD21126E02101131C9546F3C08@qq.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries

2026-08-27T12:29:45+00:00

commit 54b6bd40898de7906acb2bccc9a96d1b8e6b4323 upstream. ext4_xattr_block_set() retries when a cache entry selected for reuse has a saturated reference count after taking the buffer lock. The retry returns to the mbcache lookup without making that entry ineligible, so it can select the same unusable entry indefinitely. A task spinning there can hold the parent directory's i_rwsem and leave concurrent rmdir callers blocked. Normally a reusable entry has a reference count below EXT4_XATTR_REFCOUNT_MAX because the count and MBE_REUSABLE_B are updated under the same buffer lock. A corrupted filesystem can violate that invariant. The syzbot reproducer reports allocator and xattr corruption before triggering this retry loop. Check the untrusted on-disk count before incrementing it, avoiding overflow, and clear MBE_REUSABLE_B when it is already saturated. The next lookup then skips the entry that was just proven unusable. This mirrors the normal transition at EXT4_XATTR_REFCOUNT_MAX; the release path marks the entry reusable again on the exact 1024-to-1023 transition. Using the same QEMU harness and guest parameters, current unpatched Linux hung in 6 of 8 420-second trials with the do_rmdir signature; representative NMI backtraces caught the owner spinning in ext4_xattr_block_set(). The patched kernel completed 28 of 28 trials without a hung-task report; the final twelve trials exercised the reviewed overflow-safe form of the change. syzbot's patch testing also completed without reproducing the hang. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+e68dbebd9617a9250e8d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e68dbebd9617a9250e8d Fixes: 65f8b80053a1 ("ext4: fix race when reusing xattr blocks") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: syzbot+e68dbebd9617a9250e8d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+e68dbebd9617a9250e8d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802065941.1726052-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end

2026-07-24T14:03:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit ad09aa45965d3fafaf9963bc78109b73c0f9ac8d ] When the data=journal mount option is used, the ext4_journalled_write_end() function incorrectly calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() without checking if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is still set on the inode. If a previous attempt to convert the inline data to an extent failed (e.g. due to ENOSPC), the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is cleared, but the EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA flag remains set. In this scenario, the next call to ext4_write_begin() will not prepare the inline data xattr for writing, but ext4_journalled_write_end() will incorrectly attempt to write to it, triggering a BUG_ON(pos + len > EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size) in ext4_write_inline_data() since i_inline_size was not expanded. Fix this by ensuring that ext4_journalled_write_end() only calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is set, mirroring the behavior of ext4_write_end() and ext4_da_write_end(). Reported-by: syzbot+0c89d865531d053abb2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0c89d865531d053abb2d Fixes: 3fdcfb668fd7 ("ext4: add journalled write support for inline data") Signed-off-by: Aditya Prakash Srivastava Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608065227.3018-1-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

2026-07-24T14:03:05+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: get rid of ppath in get_ext_path()

2026-07-24T14:02:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b854d552711aa33f59eda334e6d94a00d8825bb ] The use of path and ppath is now very confusing, so to make the code more readable, pass path between functions uniformly, and get rid of ppath. After getting rid of ppath in get_ext_path(), its caller may pass an error pointer to ext4_free_ext_path(), so it needs to teach ext4_free_ext_path() and ext4_ext_drop_refs() to skip the error pointer. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-13-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes

2026-05-17T15:13:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2acb5c12ebd860f30e4faf67e6cc8c44ddfe5fe8 ] 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 [ Minor conflict resolved. ] Signed-off-by: Jianqiang kang Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin