[PATCH v4 0/2] hfsplus: fix the extents overflow file recursive tree_lock and its root cause
From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang
Date: Sat Sep 12 2026 - 09:35:39 EST
syzbot: WARNING: possible recursive locking in hfsplus_find_init
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f8ce6c197125ab9d72ce
This is the whole solution Slava asked for, in one series:
Patch 1 fixes the recursive tree_lock itself: hfsplus_ext_read_extent()
now refuses to look up an overflow extent for the extents overflow
file's own inode (it can never have one), and hfsplus_file_extend()
tests whether the fork actually has room before allocating blocks for
it, instead of allocating and undoing the allocation on failure.
Patch 2 addresses "how would we check the fork itself" and "how could
we check the forks of other b-trees", asked across the last few
rounds: hfsplus_check_fork() validates the eight fork extents of the
extents, catalog and attributes trees at hfs_btree_open() time,
following the severity split discussed -- first extent unusable ->
mount fails; a later extent corrupt (the syzbot image's case) -> open
read-only.
v3 -> v4:
- hfsplus_file_extend() tests fork capacity before allocating instead
of allocating and freeing on -ENOSPC (Slava)
- added hfsplus_check_fork(), called from hfs_btree_open() for all
three trees, with the mount-fail/read-only severity split (Slava)
- hfsplus_reconfigure() and hfsplus_fill_super() check the resulting
per-tree corrupt flag instead of re-deriving it on every remount
Nguyen Ngoc Thang (2):
hfsplus: fix recursive tree_lock in hfsplus_file_extend()
hfsplus: validate b-tree fork extents at mount time
fs/hfsplus/btree.c | 12 ++++++
fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 4 ++
fs/hfsplus/super.c | 9 ++++
4 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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