[PATCH 03/19] jbd2: point the shadow buffer at the frozen data directly

From: Chao Shi

Date: Sat Aug 01 2026 - 18:01:35 EST


When a metadata buffer has to be copied out before it can be journalled,
jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() writes jh->b_frozen_data rather than
the page cache copy. b_frozen_data is kmalloc()ed, so folio_set_bh() makes
the shadow buffer point at a slab folio.

That is not something the buffer_head layer can reason about. A slab folio
overloads ->mapping, so a shadow buffer looks like it belongs to an
address_space when it does not. buffer_set_crypto_ctx() already has to use
folio_mapping() to avoid tripping over this, and it is the reason
mark_buffer_write_io_error() cannot be called on a shadow buffer today.

Point the shadow buffer at the frozen data itself instead: leave b_folio
NULL and set b_data. The previous patch taught fs/buffer.c to submit such
a buffer. The two commit-path checksum helpers are the only other users of
the shadow buffer's contents, and they take the data directly rather than
kmapping a folio that is already mapped.

Note that the shadow buffer must not be passed to bh_offset() while
b_folio is NULL. All four callers that can see one are handled here and in
the previous patch.

Tested with ext4 mounted data=journal,journal_checksum on a metadata_csum
filesystem, writing files whose every block begins with the JBD2 magic so
that escaping forces the copy-out, then crashing with sysrq-b without
unmounting and replaying the journal on the next mount. Recovery
completed, the file contents matched, e2fsck -fn was clean, and an
instrumented build confirmed the b_folio == NULL path was taken.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chao Shi <coshi036@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/commit.c | 12 +++++++++---
fs/jbd2/journal.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 3029cb6f6d64..60273cddf434 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -330,6 +330,8 @@ static __u32 jbd2_checksum_data(__u32 crc32_sum, struct buffer_head *bh)
char *addr;
__u32 checksum;

+ if (!bh->b_folio)
+ return crc32_be(crc32_sum, bh->b_data, bh->b_size);
addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
checksum = crc32_be(crc32_sum, addr, bh->b_size);
kunmap_local(addr);
@@ -357,10 +359,14 @@ static void jbd2_block_tag_csum_set(journal_t *j, journal_block_tag_t *tag,
return;

seq = cpu_to_be32(sequence);
- addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
csum32 = jbd2_chksum(j->j_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&seq, sizeof(seq));
- csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, addr, bh->b_size);
- kunmap_local(addr);
+ if (!bh->b_folio) {
+ csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, bh->b_data, bh->b_size);
+ } else {
+ addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
+ csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, addr, bh->b_size);
+ kunmap_local(addr);
+ }

if (jbd2_has_feature_csum3(j))
tag3->t_checksum = cpu_to_be32(csum32);
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 09efa337649e..9e4cb04587b4 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
struct buffer_head *new_bh;
struct folio *new_folio;
unsigned int new_offset;
+ bool frozen = false;
struct buffer_head *bh_in = jh2bh(jh_in);
journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;

@@ -354,8 +355,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
* we use that version of the data for the commit.
*/
if (jh_in->b_frozen_data) {
- new_folio = virt_to_folio(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
- new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, jh_in->b_frozen_data);
+ frozen = true;
do_escape = jbd2_data_needs_escaping(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
if (do_escape)
jbd2_data_do_escape(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
@@ -400,13 +400,22 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
jh_in->b_frozen_triggers = jh_in->b_triggers;

copy_done:
- new_folio = virt_to_folio(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
- new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, jh_in->b_frozen_data);
+ frozen = true;
jbd2_data_do_escape(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
}

escape_done:
- folio_set_bh(new_bh, new_folio, new_offset);
+ if (frozen) {
+ /*
+ * b_frozen_data is slab memory, not page cache. Point the
+ * buffer at it directly rather than at a slab folio, whose
+ * ->mapping is not an address_space.
+ */
+ new_bh->b_folio = NULL;
+ new_bh->b_data = jh_in->b_frozen_data;
+ } else {
+ folio_set_bh(new_bh, new_folio, new_offset);
+ }
new_bh->b_size = bh_in->b_size;
new_bh->b_bdev = journal->j_dev;
new_bh->b_blocknr = blocknr;
--
2.43.0