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Zhang Yi 71cdb58dc7 jbd2: ensure that all ongoing I/O complete before freeing blocks
[ Upstream commit 3c652c3a71de1d30d72dc82c3bead8deb48eb749 ]

When releasing file system metadata blocks in jbd2_journal_forget(), if
this buffer has not yet been checkpointed, it may have already been
written back, currently be in the process of being written back, or has
not yet written back.  jbd2_journal_forget() calls
jbd2_journal_try_remove_checkpoint() to check the buffer's status and
add it to the current transaction if it has not been written back. This
buffer can only be reallocated after the transaction is committed.

jbd2_journal_try_remove_checkpoint() attempts to lock the buffer and
check its dirty status while holding the buffer lock. If the buffer has
already been written back, everything proceeds normally. However, there
are two issues. First, the function returns immediately if the buffer is
locked by the write-back process. It does not wait for the write-back to
complete. Consequently, until the current transaction is committed and
the block is reallocated, there is no guarantee that the I/O will
complete. This means that ongoing I/O could write stale metadata to the
newly allocated block, potentially corrupting data. Second, the function
unlocks the buffer as soon as it detects that the buffer is still dirty.
If a concurrent write-back occurs immediately after this unlocking and
before clear_buffer_dirty() is called in jbd2_journal_forget(), data
corruption can theoretically still occur.

Although these two issues are unlikely to occur in practice since the
undergoing metadata writeback I/O does not take this long to complete,
it's better to explicitly ensure that all ongoing I/O operations are
completed.

Fixes: 597599268e ("jbd2: discard dirty data when forgetting an un-journalled buffer")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-ID: <20250916093337.3161016-2-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-10-29 14:00:01 +01:00
arch arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE 2025-10-29 14:00:00 +01:00
block block: use int to store blk_stack_limits() return value 2025-10-29 13:59:46 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-29 13:59:52 +01:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE 2025-10-29 14:00:00 +01:00
drivers drm/amdgpu: use atomic functions with memory barriers for vm fault info 2025-10-29 14:00:01 +01:00
fs jbd2: ensure that all ongoing I/O complete before freeing blocks 2025-10-29 14:00:01 +01:00
include net: add ndo_fdb_del_bulk 2025-10-29 13:59:59 +01:00
init bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
kernel sched/fair: Fix pelt lost idle time detection 2025-10-29 13:59:57 +01:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-29 13:59:53 +01:00
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mm mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area 2025-10-29 13:59:50 +01:00
net sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing 2025-10-29 13:59:59 +01:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:21:19 +02:00
scripts randstruct: gcc-plugin: Fix attribute addition 2025-09-09 18:44:01 +02:00
security securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-28 16:21:24 +02:00
sound ALSA: firewire: amdtp-stream: fix enum kernel-doc warnings 2025-10-29 13:59:57 +01:00
tools rseq/selftests: Use weak symbol reference, not definition, to link with glibc 2025-10-29 13:59:54 +01:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ignore PMCNTENSET_EL0 while checking for overflow status 2024-12-19 18:05:04 +01:00
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