Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to detect obsolete inner inode during fill_super()

[Jaegeuk Kim]

On 09/13, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2022/9/12 23:37, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > On 09/08, Chao Yu wrote:
> > > Sometimes we can get a cached meta_inode which has no aops yet. Let's set it
> > > all the time to fix the below panic.
> > > 
> > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
> > > Mem abort info:
> > >    ESR = 0x0000000086000004
> > >    EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> > >    SET = 0, FnV = 0
> > >    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> > >    FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
> > > user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000109ee4000
> > > [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
> > > Internal error: Oops: 86000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > > Modules linked in:
> > > CPU: 1 PID: 3045 Comm: syz-executor330 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-syzkaller-16455-ga41a877bc12d #0
> > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/22/2022
> > > pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> > > pc : 0x0
> > > lr : folio_mark_dirty+0xbc/0x208 mm/page-writeback.c:2748
> > > sp : ffff800012783970
> > > x29: ffff800012783970 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800012783b08
> > > x26: 0000000000000001 x25: 0000000000000400 x24: 0000000000000001
> > > x23: ffff0000c736e000 x22: 0000000000000045 x21: 05ffc00000000015
> > > x20: ffff0000ca7403b8 x19: fffffc00032ec600 x18: 0000000000000181
> > > x17: ffff80000c04d6bc x16: ffff80000dbb8658 x15: 0000000000000000
> > > x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
> > > x11: ff808000083e9814 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffff8000083e9814
> > > x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
> > > x5 : ffff0000cbb19000 x4 : ffff0000cb3d2000 x3 : ffff0000cbb18f80
> > > x2 : fffffffffffffff0 x1 : fffffc00032ec600 x0 : ffff0000ca7403b8
> > > Call trace:
> > >   0x0
> > >   set_page_dirty+0x38/0xbc mm/folio-compat.c:62
> > >   f2fs_update_meta_page+0x80/0xa8 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2369
> > >   do_checkpoint+0x794/0xea8 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1522
> > >   f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3b8/0x568 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1679
> > > 
> > > The root cause is, quoted from Jaegeuk:
> > > 
> > > It turned out there is a bug in reiserfs which doesn't free the root
> > > inode (ino=2). That leads f2fs to find an ino=2 with the previous
> > > superblock point used by reiserfs. That stale inode has no valid
> > > mapping that f2fs can use, result in kernel panic.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds sanity check in f2fs_iget() to avoid finding stale
> > > inode during inner inode initialization.
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+775a3440817f74fddb8c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   fs/f2fs/inode.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > > index ccb29034af59..df1a82fbfaf2 100644
> > > --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > > @@ -493,6 +493,17 @@ struct inode *f2fs_iget_inner(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
> > >   	struct inode *inode;
> > >   	int ret = 0;
> > > +	if (ino == F2FS_NODE_INO(sbi) || ino == F2FS_META_INO(sbi) ||
> > > +					ino == F2FS_COMPRESS_INO(sbi)) {
> > > +		inode = ilookup(sb, ino);
> > > +		if (inode) {
> > > +			iput(inode);
> > > +			f2fs_err(sbi, "there is obsoleted inner inode %lu cached in hash table",
> > > +					ino);
> > > +			return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
> > 
> > Well, this does not indicate f2fs is corrupted. I'd rather expect to fix
> > reiserfs instead of f2fs workaround which hides the bug.
> 
> Well, is there a fixing patch for reiserfs? If not, how about applying this
> patch first, later, we can revert it after reiserfs has been fixed.

I don't feel this is a right way to deal with that. If we think it'd be worth
checking any stale inode object during f2fs_fill_super, we'd better check any
cached inode given superblock pointer rather than our inner inodes only.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > 
> > > +		}
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > >   	inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
> > >   	if (!inode)
> > >   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > > -- 
> > > 2.25.1