Re: [f2fs-dev] [f2fs bug] infinite loop in f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail()
From: jaegeuk
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 21:50:20 EST
On 10/09, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2020/10/8 5:53, jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On 10/07, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > [moved linux-fsdevel to Bcc]
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:18:19AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > > >
> > > > HEAD commit: a804ab08 Add linux-next specific files for 20201006
> > > > git tree: linux-next
> > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17fe30bf900000
> > > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=26c1b4cc4a62ccb
> > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ee250ac8137be41d7b13
> > > > compiler: gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
> > > > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1336413b900000
> > > > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=12f7392b900000
> > > >
> > > > The issue was bisected to:
> > > >
> > > > commit eede846af512572b1f30b34f9889d7df64c017d4
> > > > Author: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Fri Oct 2 21:17:35 2020 +0000
> > > >
> > > > f2fs: f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail should not be failed
> > > >
> > >
> > > Jaegeuk, it looks like the loop you added in the above commit doesn't terminate
> > > if the requested page is beyond the end of the device.
> >
> > Yes, that will go infinite loop. Otherwise, it will trigger a panic during
> > the device reboot. Let me think how to avoid that before trying to get the
> > wrong lba access.
>
> Delivering f2fs_get_sum_page()'s return value needs a lot of codes change, I think
> we can just zeroing sum_page in error case, as we have already shutdown f2fs via
> calling f2fs_stop_checkpoint(), then f2fs_cp_error() will stop all updates to
> filesystem data including summary pages.
That sounds like one solution tho, I'm afraid of getting another panic by
wrong zero'ed summary page.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> >
> > >
> > > - Eric
> >
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