[PATCH] jfs: fix use-after-free on log shutdown

From: Mashiro Chen

Date: Fri Apr 24 2026 - 13:56:00 EST


During JFS log shutdown, log buffer pages can be freed while lower-layer
loop workers are still copying from them, triggering a use-after-free
reported by syzbot in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic().

Track in-flight log I/O in struct jfs_log and wait for completion before
freeing log buffers. Add io_inflight/io_waitq, increment io_inflight
before submitting BIOs in lbmRead() and lbmStartIO(), and decrement it
from lbmIODone() on all completion paths, including READ and DIRECT
early-return paths.

This closes the teardown race between buffer page free and late I/O
completion.

Reported-by: syzbot+6cc93ec9a4035badb85f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6cc93ec9a4035badb85f
Signed-off-by: Mashiro Chen <mashiro.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
index ada00d5bc214..a45c8e2559e4 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
@@ -1806,6 +1806,8 @@ static int lbmLogInit(struct jfs_log * log)
* avoid deadlock here.
*/
init_waitqueue_head(&log->free_wait);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&log->io_waitq);
+ atomic_set(&log->io_inflight, 0);

log->lbuf_free = NULL;

@@ -1857,6 +1859,8 @@ static void lbmLogShutdown(struct jfs_log * log)

jfs_info("lbmLogShutdown: log:0x%p", log);

+ wait_event(log->io_waitq, !atomic_read(&log->io_inflight));
+
lbuf = log->lbuf_free;
while (lbuf) {
struct lbuf *next = lbuf->l_freelist;
@@ -1978,6 +1982,7 @@ static int lbmRead(struct jfs_log * log, int pn, struct lbuf ** bpp)

bio->bi_end_io = lbmIODone;
bio->bi_private = bp;
+ atomic_inc(&log->io_inflight);
/*check if journaling to disk has been disabled*/
if (log->no_integrity) {
bio->bi_iter.bi_size = 0;
@@ -2124,6 +2129,7 @@ static void lbmStartIO(struct lbuf * bp)

bio->bi_end_io = lbmIODone;
bio->bi_private = bp;
+ atomic_inc(&log->io_inflight);

/* check if journaling to disk has been disabled */
if (log->no_integrity) {
@@ -2170,7 +2176,7 @@ static void lbmIODone(struct bio *bio)
{
struct lbuf *bp = bio->bi_private;
struct lbuf *nextbp, *tail;
- struct jfs_log *log;
+ struct jfs_log *log = bp->l_log;
unsigned long flags;

/*
@@ -2201,6 +2207,9 @@ static void lbmIODone(struct bio *bio)
/* wakeup I/O initiator */
LCACHE_WAKEUP(&bp->l_ioevent);

+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&log->io_inflight))
+ wake_up(&log->io_waitq);
+
return;
}

@@ -2220,12 +2229,13 @@ static void lbmIODone(struct bio *bio)
INCREMENT(lmStat.pagedone);

/* update committed lsn */
- log = bp->l_log;
log->clsn = (bp->l_pn << L2LOGPSIZE) + bp->l_ceor;

if (bp->l_flag & lbmDIRECT) {
LCACHE_WAKEUP(&bp->l_ioevent);
LCACHE_UNLOCK(flags);
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&log->io_inflight))
+ wake_up(&log->io_waitq);
return;
}

@@ -2305,6 +2315,9 @@ static void lbmIODone(struct bio *bio)

LCACHE_UNLOCK(flags); /* unlock+enable */
}
+
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&log->io_inflight))
+ wake_up(&log->io_waitq);
}

int jfsIOWait(void *arg)
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
index 8b8994e48cd0..59cb0aca99c5 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
@@ -400,6 +400,8 @@ struct jfs_log {
uuid_t uuid; /* 16: 128-bit uuid of log device */

int no_integrity; /* 3: flag to disable journaling to disk */
+ atomic_t io_inflight;
+ wait_queue_head_t io_waitq;
};

/*
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