[PATCH] exfat: drain dirty pages after forced shutdown
From: Chi Zhiling
Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 05:17:46 EST
From: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@xxxxxxxxxx>
A forced shutdown sets EXFAT_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, after which
exfat_writepages() returns -EIO. Pages dirtied before the shutdown can
then never be written back, so a writer throttled in
balance_dirty_pages() while extending valid_size sleeps forever.
Stuck stack:
balance_dirty_pages+0x4f0/0xb40
exfat_prepare_valid_range+0x43/0x140
exfat_file_write_iter+0x413/0x520
iter_file_splice_write+0x32d/0x5a0
direct_splice_actor+0x51/0x270
splice_direct_to_actor+0xf5/0x270
do_splice_direct+0x76/0xc0
vfs_copy_file_range+0x244/0x710
__do_sys_copy_file_range+0xe6/0x240
do_syscall_64+0x106/0x5f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Allow writeback of pages dirtied before the shutdown to drain. New
writes are still rejected in exfat_write_iomap_begin() and
exfat_prepare_valid_range().
Fixes: f761fcdd289d0 ("exfat: Implement sops->shutdown and ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exfat/file.c | 3 +++
fs/exfat/inode.c | 3 ---
fs/exfat/iomap.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/exfat/file.c b/fs/exfat/file.c
index 1386149916bb..8b9fadba363f 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/file.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/file.c
@@ -735,6 +735,9 @@ static int exfat_prepare_valid_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t start,
index = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
next = min(((loff_t)index + 1) << PAGE_SHIFT, end);
+ if (exfat_forced_shutdown(inode->i_sb))
+ return -EIO;
+
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
folio = read_mapping_folio(mapping, index, NULL);
diff --git a/fs/exfat/inode.c b/fs/exfat/inode.c
index 5129df1e79b4..4bea9e9deb94 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/inode.c
@@ -283,9 +283,6 @@ static int exfat_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
.ops = &exfat_writeback_ops,
};
- if (unlikely(exfat_forced_shutdown(mapping->host->i_sb)))
- return -EIO;
-
return iomap_writepages(&wpc);
}
diff --git a/fs/exfat/iomap.c b/fs/exfat/iomap.c
index e50ecbfbfbe0..6383739f5700 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/iomap.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/iomap.c
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ static int exfat_write_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t le
loff_t end;
int err;
+ if (exfat_forced_shutdown(inode->i_sb))
+ return -EIO;
+
err = __exfat_iomap_begin(inode, offset, length, flags, iomap, true);
if (err || flags & (IOMAP_DIRECT | IOMAP_FAULT) ||
iomap->flags & IOMAP_F_NEW)
--
2.53.0