[PATCH] f2fs: fix to check continuousness in f2fs_sync_meta_pages() correctly

From: Chao Yu

Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 20:10:02 EST


From: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>

In f2fs_sync_meta_pages(), whenever i becomes zero inside while loop,
below check may be skipped, it failed to check the continuousness:

if (nr_to_write != LONG_MAX && i != 0 &&
folio->index != prev +
folio_nr_pages(fbatch.folios[i-1])) {

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 580e7a492608 ("f2fs: convert f2fs_sync_meta_pages() to use filemap_get_folios_tag()")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index 7b89bb838946..2e5e0ee5feb2 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ void f2fs_write_meta_caches(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
long f2fs_sync_meta_caches(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, long nr_to_write,
bool sync, enum iostat_type io_type)
{
- pgoff_t index = 0, prev = ULONG_MAX;
+ pgoff_t index = 0, next = ULONG_MAX;
struct f2fs_cached_block *entries[F2FS_ONSTACK_CACHES];
long nwritten = 0;
int nr;
@@ -629,8 +629,8 @@ long f2fs_sync_meta_caches(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, long nr_to_write,
goto stop;
}

- if (background && i != 0 &&
- entry->index != prev + 1) {
+ if (background && next != ULONG_MAX &&
+ entry->index != next) {
f2fs_cache_gang_release(entries, nr);
goto stop;
}
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ long f2fs_sync_meta_caches(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, long nr_to_write,
break;
}
nwritten++;
- prev = entry->index;
+ next = entry->index + 1;
if (unlikely(nwritten >= nr_to_write))
break;
}
--
2.49.0