Re: [PATCH] mm/readahead: read min folio constraints under invalidate lock

From: Matthew Wilcox

Date: Mon Dec 15 2025 - 21:42:09 EST


On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 09:37:51AM +0800, Jinchao Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 02:22:23PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 10:19:00PM +0800, Jinchao Wang wrote:
> > > page_cache_ra_order() and page_cache_ra_unbounded() read mapping minimum folio
> > > constraints before taking the invalidate lock, allowing concurrent changes to
> > > violate page cache invariants.
> > >
> > > Move the lookups under filemap_invalidate_lock_shared() to ensure readahead
> > > allocations respect the mapping constraints.
> >
> > Why are the mapping folio size constraints being changed? They're
> > supposed to be set at inode instantiation and then never changed.
>
> They can change after instantiation for block devices. In the syzbot repro:
> blkdev_ioctl() -> blkdev_bszset() -> set_blocksize() ->
> mapping_set_folio_min_order()

Oh, this is just syzbot doing stupid things. We should probably make
blkdev_bszset() fail if somebody else has an fd open.