[PATCH v6 22/24] netfs: Check for too much data being read

From: David Howells

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 06:41:05 EST


Put in a check in read subreq termination to detect more data being read
for a subrequest than was requested.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/netfs/read_collect.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
include/trace/events/netfs.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
index 802d1c40cce5..c0170f80d67f 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ static void netfs_collect_read_results(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
notes |= HIT_PENDING;
smp_rmb(); /* Read counters after IN_PROGRESS flag. */
transferred = READ_ONCE(front->transferred);
+ if (transferred > front->len)
+ transferred = front->len;

/* If we can now collect the next folio, do so. We don't want
* to defer this as we have to decide whether we need to copy
@@ -543,6 +545,22 @@ void netfs_read_subreq_terminated(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq)
break;
}

+ /* If the subrequest read more than it was supposed to, abort
+ * the request with EIO as we may have clobbered other parts
+ * of the buffer that are already read.
+ */
+ if (subreq->transferred > subreq->len) {
+ trace_netfs_sreq(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_too_much);
+ __set_bit(NETFS_SREQ_FAILED, &subreq->flags);
+ __clear_bit(NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY, &subreq->flags);
+ subreq->transferred = 0;
+ subreq->error = -EIO;
+ trace_netfs_failure(rreq, subreq, subreq->error, netfs_fail_read);
+ trace_netfs_rreq(rreq, netfs_rreq_trace_set_pause);
+ set_bit(NETFS_RREQ_PAUSE, &rreq->flags);
+ goto skip_error_checks;
+ }
+
/* Deal with retry requests, short reads and errors. If we retry
* but don't make progress, we abandon the attempt.
*/
diff --git a/include/trace/events/netfs.h b/include/trace/events/netfs.h
index 071d20e80f13..723cb7315308 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/netfs.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/netfs.h
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_submit, "SUBMT") \
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_superfluous, "SPRFL") \
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_terminated, "TERM ") \
+ EM(netfs_sreq_trace_too_much, "!TOOM") \
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_wait_for, "_WAIT") \
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_write, "WRITE") \
EM(netfs_sreq_trace_write_skip, "SKIP ") \