[PATCH] block: add lock for safe nrpages access in invalidate_bdev()
From: Yuan Tan
Date: Mon Mar 10 2025 - 13:03:11 EST
Syzbot reported a data-race in __filemap_add_folio / invalidate_bdev[1]
due to concurrent access to mapping->nrpages.
Adds a lock around the access to nrpages.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f2aaf773187f5cae54f3
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+f2aaf773187f5cae54f3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
block/bdev.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I had already completed and tested this patch before Matthew sent the
email. I'm not sure if this solution is correct. If it's not, please
ignore the patch :)
diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index 9d73a8fbf7f9..934043d09068 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -96,7 +96,14 @@ void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
{
struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_mapping;
- if (mapping->nrpages) {
+ XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, 0); /* we don't care about the index */
+ unsigned long nrpages;
+
+ xas_lock_irq(&xas);
+ nrpages = mapping->nrpages;
+ xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
+
+ if (nrpages) {
invalidate_bh_lrus();
lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */
invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1);
--
2.25.1