Re: [PATCH v2] ocfs2: don't BUG_ON an invalid journal dinode
From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue May 12 2026 - 02:24:25 EST
On 5/12/26 10:41 AM, ZhengYuan Huang wrote:
> [BUG]
> A fuzzed OCFS2 image can corrupt the current slot journal dinode while
> mount is still in progress. The mount path first reports the invalid
> journal block and then crashes in shutdown:
>
> kernel BUG at fs/ocfs2/journal.c:1034!
> Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
> RIP: 0010:ocfs2_journal_toggle_dirty+0x2d6/0x340 fs/ocfs2/journal.c:1034
> Call Trace:
> ocfs2_journal_shutdown+0x414/0xc30 fs/ocfs2/journal.c:1116
> ocfs2_mount_volume fs/ocfs2/super.c:1785 [inline]
> ocfs2_fill_super+0x30a9/0x3cd0 fs/ocfs2/super.c:1083
> get_tree_bdev_flags+0x38b/0x640 fs/super.c:1698
> get_tree_bdev+0x24/0x40 fs/super.c:1721
> ocfs2_get_tree+0x21/0x30 fs/ocfs2/super.c:1184
> vfs_get_tree+0x9a/0x370 fs/super.c:1758
> fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1199 [inline]
> do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3642 [inline]
> do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3718 [inline]
> path_mount+0x5b8/0x1ea0 fs/namespace.c:4028
> do_mount fs/namespace.c:4041 [inline]
> __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4229 [inline]
> __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4206 [inline]
> __x64_sys_mount+0x282/0x320 fs/namespace.c:4206
> ...
>
> [CAUSE]
> ocfs2_journal_toggle_dirty() used to return -EIO when journal->j_bh no
> longer contained a valid dinode, because the startup and shutdown paths
> already handled that failure. Commit 10995aa2451a
> ("ocfs2: Morph the haphazard OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE() checks.") changed
> the check to a BUG_ON() under the assumption that the journal dinode had
> already been validated. That turns an unexpected invalid journal dinode
> during mount teardown into a kernel crash instead of a normal mount
> failure.
>
> [FIX]
> Replace the BUG_ON() with WARN_ON() and return -EIO. This keeps the
> invariant warning for debugging, but restores the original behavior of
> failing startup or shutdown cleanly instead of panicking the kernel.
>
> Fixes: 10995aa2451a ("ocfs2: Morph the haphazard OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE() checks.")
> Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@xxxxxxxxx>
The 'Fixes' tag may not needed. Other looks fine to me.
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> - Drop the full dinode revalidation and use WARN_ON plus -EIO instead
> - Rework the rationale around the historical BUG_ON conversion
> - Add a Fixes tag for the commit that replaced the old error return
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> index f9bf3bac085d..fc54cc798ce3 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> @@ -1022,11 +1022,8 @@ static int ocfs2_journal_toggle_dirty(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
> struct ocfs2_dinode *fe;
>
> fe = (struct ocfs2_dinode *)bh->b_data;
> -
> - /* The journal bh on the osb always comes from ocfs2_journal_init()
> - * and was validated there inside ocfs2_inode_lock_full(). It's a
> - * code bug if we mess it up. */
> - BUG_ON(!OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE(fe));
> + if (WARN_ON(!OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE(fe)))
> + return -EIO;
>
> flags = le32_to_cpu(fe->id1.journal1.ij_flags);
> if (dirty)