Forwarded: [PATCH] nilfs2: reject CLEAN_SEGMENTS ioctl with out-of-range segment numbers

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Date: Mon Apr 27 2026 - 20:31:58 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: reject CLEAN_SEGMENTS ioctl with out-of-range segment numbers
Author: kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master


Syzbot reported a hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin() where multiple
tasks performing chmod() on a nilfs2 mount blocked for over 143 seconds
waiting to acquire ns_segctor_sem for read:

INFO: task syz.0.17:5918 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Call Trace:
schedule+0x164/0x360
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x6d9/0x940
down_read+0x99/0x2e0
nilfs_transaction_begin+0x364/0x710 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:221
nilfs_setattr+0x124/0x2c0 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:921
notify_change+0xc1a/0xf40
chmod_common+0x273/0x4a0
do_fchmodat+0x12d/0x230

The writer holding ns_segctor_sem was a concurrent NILFS_IOCTL_CLEAN_SEGMENTS
caller, stuck inside printk while emitting per-element warnings from
nilfs_sufile_updatev():

__nilfs_msg+0x373/0x450 fs/nilfs2/super.c:78
nilfs_sufile_updatev+0x21c/0x6d0 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:186
nilfs_sufile_freev fs/nilfs2/sufile.h:93 [inline]
nilfs_free_segments fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1140 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1261 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1f55/0x76c0
nilfs_clean_segments+0x3bd/0xa50
nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:922 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl+0x261f/0x2780

The root cause is that nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments() does not validate
the user-supplied segment numbers in kbufs[4] before calling
nilfs_clean_segments(), which acquires ns_segctor_sem for write. The
range check on each segnum is performed deep inside the call chain by
nilfs_sufile_updatev(), which emits a nilfs_warn() per invalid entry
while still under the segctor lock and the sufile mi_sem. Under load
(repeated invocations across multiple mounts saturating the global
printk path), the cumulative printk latency keeps ns_segctor_sem held
long enough to trip the hung_task watchdog, blocking concurrent
operations such as chmod() that need ns_segctor_sem for read.

Fix by validating the contents of kbufs[4] in the ioctl entry path,
before any FS-wide lock is acquired. Out-of-range segment numbers are
rejected with -EINVAL synchronously, with no work performed under
ns_segctor_sem.

Reported-by: syzbot+62f0f99d2f2bb8e3bbd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=62f0f99d2f2bb8e3bbd7
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
index e0a606643e87..38822dce1839 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
struct the_nilfs *nilfs;
size_t len, nsegs;
int n, ret;
+ size_t i;

if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
@@ -876,6 +877,21 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
}
nilfs = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;

+ /*
+ * Validate segment numbers against the filesystem's segment count
+ * before entering nilfs_clean_segments(), which acquires
+ * ns_segctor_sem for write. Catching invalid segnums here avoids
+ * holding that lock while emitting per-element diagnostics under
+ * the segment constructor.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nsegs; i++) {
+ if (((__u64 *)kbufs[4])[i] >= nilfs->ns_nsegments) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ kfree(kbufs[4]);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
for (n = 0; n < 4; n++) {
ret = -EINVAL;
if (argv[n].v_size != argsz[n])
--
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