Ryusuke Konishi d31c8721e8 nilfs2: fix potential bug in end_buffer_async_write
commit 5bc09b397cbf1221f8a8aacb1152650c9195b02b upstream.

According to a syzbot report, end_buffer_async_write(), which handles the
completion of block device writes, may detect abnormal condition of the
buffer async_write flag and cause a BUG_ON failure when using nilfs2.

Nilfs2 itself does not use end_buffer_async_write().  But, the async_write
flag is now used as a marker by commit 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue
with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks") as
a means of resolving double list insertion of dirty blocks in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and nilfs_lookup_node_buffers() and the
resulting crash.

This modification is safe as long as it is used for file data and b-tree
node blocks where the page caches are independent.  However, it was
irrelevant and redundant to also introduce async_write for segment summary
and super root blocks that share buffers with the backing device.  This
led to the possibility that the BUG_ON check in end_buffer_async_write
would fail as described above, if independent writebacks of the backing
device occurred in parallel.

The use of async_write for segment summary buffers has already been
removed in a previous change.

Fix this issue by removing the manipulation of the async_write flag for
the remaining super root block buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240203161645.4992-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+5c04210f7c7f897c1e7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000019a97c05fd42f8c8@google.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-02-23 08:25:14 +01:00
2024-02-23 08:25:13 +01:00
2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
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