Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] f2fs: avoid NULL checkpoint thread access in sysfs

From: Chao Yu

Date: Mon Aug 03 2026 - 05:40:14 EST


This patch should include below change? otherwise it's not a self-contained
fix.

@@ -1007,13 +1007,15 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a,
ssize_t ret;
bool gc_entry = (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "gc_urgent") ||
a->struct_type == GC_THREAD);
+ bool thread_entry = !strcmp(a->attr.name, "ckpt_thread_ioprio");

- if (gc_entry) {
+ if (gc_entry || thread_entry) {
if (!down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount))
return -EAGAIN;
}
ret = __sbi_store(a, sbi, buf, count);
- if (gc_entry)
+ if (gc_entry || thread_entry)
up_read(&sbi->sb->s_umount);

On 8/3/26 17:23, Wenjie Qi wrote:
checkpoint_merge can be enabled even when no checkpoint merge thread is
running. A read-only mount is one case: f2fs does not start
f2fs_issue_ckpt there, but ckpt_thread_ioprio is still writable through
sysfs.

The ckpt_thread_ioprio store path updates the saved ioprio value and,
when checkpoint_merge is enabled, calls set_task_ioprio() for the
checkpoint thread. If cprc->f2fs_issue_ckpt is NULL, that dereferences a
NULL task pointer.

Keep storing the requested ioprio, but apply it only when the
checkpoint thread exists.

Fixes: e65920661708 ("f2fs: add ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs node")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
index be92c05a5420..070f9807ae81 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a,
return -EINVAL;
cprc->ckpt_thread_ioprio = IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(class, level);
- if (test_opt(sbi, MERGE_CHECKPOINT)) {
+ if (cprc->f2fs_issue_ckpt) {
ret = set_task_ioprio(cprc->f2fs_issue_ckpt,
cprc->ckpt_thread_ioprio);
if (ret)