[PATCH] f2fs: fix to avoid potential section-unaligned pinfile

From: Chao Yu

Date: Mon Jun 29 2026 - 08:03:22 EST


Blocks of pinfile may not aligned to section size due to wrong use
on pinfile, result in heavy overhead of GC, let avoid this by
adding additional check condition in f2fs_setattr().

- truncate -s 8mb pinfile
: random checkpoint may persist filesize w/ inode
- fallocate -o 0 -l 8mb pinfile
- f2fs_fallocate
- f2fs_expand_inode_data
- f2fs_allocate_pinning_section
- f2fs_map_blocks
- f2fs_map_lock
- __allocate_data_block
- file_need_truncate
: w/ FADVISE_TRUNC_BIT, we can expect unaligned mapping can be
truncated while open() if f2fs is not umount abnormally
- f2fs_map_unlock
: following f2fs checkpoint and sudden power-cut

- mount
- open pinfile
- f2fs_file_open
- finish_preallocate_blocks
- truncate_setsize
: filesize is 8mb
- f2fs_truncate
: can only truncate block outside filesize, rather than truncating
unaligned blocks inside filesize

Fixes: f5a53edcf01e ("f2fs: support aligned pinned file")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/file.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index f4facd409d9b..11cc8d79c235 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1107,17 +1107,23 @@ int f2fs_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
!IS_ALIGNED(attr->ia_size,
F2FS_BLK_TO_BYTES(fi->i_cluster_size)))
return -EINVAL;
- /*
- * To prevent scattered pin block generation, we don't allow
- * smaller/equal size unaligned truncation for pinned file.
- * We only support overwrite IO to pinned file, so don't
- * care about larger size truncation.
- */
- if (f2fs_is_pinned_file(inode) &&
- attr->ia_size <= i_size_read(inode) &&
- !IS_ALIGNED(attr->ia_size,
- F2FS_BLK_TO_BYTES(CAP_BLKS_PER_SEC(sbi))))
- return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (f2fs_is_pinned_file(inode)) {
+ /*
+ * It may break section-aligned fallocate recovery
+ * mechanism, so do not allow larger size truncation.
+ */
+ if (attr->ia_size > i_size_read(inode))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * To prevent scattered pin block generation, we don't
+ * allow smaller/equal size unaligned truncation for
+ * pinned file.
+ */
+ else if (!IS_ALIGNED(attr->ia_size,
+ F2FS_BLK_TO_BYTES(CAP_BLKS_PER_SEC(sbi))))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
}

if (is_quota_modification(idmap, inode, attr)) {
--
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