kernel.git/fs/nilfs2, branch linux-6.15.y

nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes

2025-08-01T08:51:27Z

commit 4aead50caf67e01020c8be1945c3201e8a972a27 upstream. To prevent inodes with invalid file types from tripping through the vfs and causing malfunctions or assertion failures, add a missing sanity check when reading an inode from a block device. If the file type is not valid, treat it as a filesystem error. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250710134952.29862-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 05fe58fdc10d ("nilfs2: inode operations") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Reported-by: syzbot+895c23f6917da440ed0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=895c23f6917da440ed0d Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nilfs2: do not propagate ENOENT error from nilfs_btree_propagate()

2025-06-19T13:40:12Z

[ Upstream commit 8e39fbb1edbb4ec9d7c1124f403877fc167fcecd ] In preparation for writing logs, in nilfs_btree_propagate(), which makes parent and ancestor node blocks dirty starting from a modified data block or b-tree node block, if the starting block does not belong to the b-tree, i.e. is isolated, nilfs_btree_do_lookup() called within the function fails with -ENOENT. In this case, even though -ENOENT is an internal code, it is propagated to the log writer via nilfs_bmap_propagate() and may be erroneously returned to system calls such as fsync(). Fix this issue by changing the error code to -EINVAL in this case, and having the bmap layer detect metadata corruption and convert the error code appropriately. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250428173808.6452-3-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 1f5abe7e7dbc ("nilfs2: replace BUG_ON and BUG calls triggerable from ioctl") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Cc: Wentao Liang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

nilfs2: add pointer check for nilfs_direct_propagate()

2025-06-19T13:40:12Z

[ Upstream commit f43f02429295486059605997bc43803527d69791 ] Patch series "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation". This fixes one missed check for block mapping anomalies and one improper return of an error code during a preparation step for log writing, thereby improving checking for filesystem corruption on writeback. This patch (of 2): In nilfs_direct_propagate(), the printer get from nilfs_direct_get_ptr() need to be checked to ensure it is not an invalid pointer. If the pointer value obtained by nilfs_direct_get_ptr() is NILFS_BMAP_INVALID_PTR, means that the metadata (in this case, i_bmap in the nilfs_inode_info struct) that should point to the data block at the buffer head of the argument is corrupted and the data block is orphaned, meaning that the file system has lost consistency. Add a value check and return -EINVAL when it is an invalid pointer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250428173808.6452-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250428173808.6452-2-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 36a580eb489f ("nilfs2: direct block mapping") Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

nilfs2: fix deadlock warnings caused by lock dependency in init_nilfs()

2025-05-08T06:39:42Z

After commit c0e473a0d226 ("block: fix race between set_blocksize and read paths") was merged, set_blocksize() called by sb_set_blocksize() now locks the inode of the backing device file. As a result of this change, syzbot started reporting deadlock warnings due to a circular dependency involving the semaphore "ns_sem" of the nilfs object, the inode lock of the backing device file, and the locks that this inode lock is transitively dependent on. This is caused by a new lock dependency added by the above change, since init_nilfs() calls sb_set_blocksize() in the lock section of "ns_sem". However, these warnings are false positives because init_nilfs() is called in the early stage of the mount operation and the filesystem has not yet started. The reason why "ns_sem" is locked in init_nilfs() was to avoid a race condition in nilfs_fill_super() caused by sharing a nilfs object among multiple filesystem instances (super block structures) in the early implementation. However, nilfs objects and super block structures have long ago become one-to-one, and there is no longer any need to use the semaphore there. So, fix this issue by removing the use of the semaphore "ns_sem" in init_nilfs(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250503053327.12294-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: c0e473a0d226 ("block: fix race between set_blocksize and read paths") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Reported-by: syzbot+00f7f5b884b117ee6773@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=00f7f5b884b117ee6773 Tested-by: syzbot+00f7f5b884b117ee6773@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+f30591e72bfc24d4715b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f30591e72bfc24d4715b Tested-by: syzbot+f30591e72bfc24d4715b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12Z

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *

2025-02-27T19:00:17Z

Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g. on a different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir request returns. For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at() calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry before the first mkdir returns. This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes. Some callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the dentry is no longer hashed. This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to avoid races. Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with the mkdir. To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in. Possible returns are: NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used ERR_PTR() - an error occurred non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of "err" or equivalent transformations. Subsequent patches will make further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry. Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry: - NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of the name to get inode information. Races could result in this returning something different. Note that this lookup is non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid. Placing the lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem has no other option. - kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate the dentry. This could be fixed but I don't think it is important to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry. The recommendation to use d_drop();d_splice_alias() is ugly but fits with current practice. A planned future patch will change this. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

nilfs2: fix possible int overflows in nilfs_fiemap()

2025-02-01T11:53:26Z

Since nilfs_bmap_lookup_contig() in nilfs_fiemap() calculates its result by being prepared to go through potentially maxblocks == INT_MAX blocks, the value in n may experience an overflow caused by left shift of blkbits. While it is extremely unlikely to occur, play it safe and cast right hand expression to wider type to mitigate the issue. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with static analysis tool SVACE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250124222133.5323-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 622daaff0a89 ("nilfs2: fiemap support") Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved

2025-01-25T06:47:26Z

A minor issue with nilfs_rename, originating from an old ext2 implementation, is that the mtime is updated even if the rename target is a directory and it is renamed within the same directory, rather than moved to a different directory. In this case, the child directory being renamed does not change in any way, so changing its mtime is unnecessary according to the specification, and can unnecessarily confuse backup tools. In ext2, this issue was fixed by commit 39fe7557b4d6 ("ext2: Do not update mtime of a moved directory") and a few subsequent fixes, but it remained in nilfs2. Fix this issue by not calling nilfs_set_link(), which rewrites the inode number of the directory entry that refers to the parent directory, when the move target is a directory and the source and destination are the same directory. Here, the directory to be moved only needs to be read if the inode number of the parent directory is rewritten with nilfs_set_link, so also adjust the execution conditions of the preparation work to avoid unnecessary directory reads. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111143518.7901-3-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return

2025-01-25T06:47:25Z

Patch series "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations". This series fixes BUG_ON check failures reported by syzbot around rename operations, and a minor behavioral issue where the mtime of a child directory changes when it is renamed instead of moved. This patch (of 2): The directory manipulation routines nilfs_set_link() and nilfs_delete_entry() rewrite the directory entry in the folio/page previously read by nilfs_find_entry(), so error handling is omitted on the assumption that nilfs_prepare_chunk(), which prepares the buffer for rewriting, will always succeed for these. And if an error is returned, it triggers the legacy BUG_ON() checks in each routine. This assumption is wrong, as proven by syzbot: the buffer layer called by nilfs_prepare_chunk() may call nilfs_get_block() if necessary, which may fail due to metadata corruption or other reasons. This has been there all along, but improved sanity checks and error handling may have made it more reproducible in fuzzing tests. Fix this issue by adding missing error paths in nilfs_set_link(), nilfs_delete_entry(), and their caller nilfs_rename(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111143518.7901-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111143518.7901-2-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Reported-by: syzbot+32c3706ebf5d95046ea1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=32c3706ebf5d95046ea1 Reported-by: syzbot+1097e95f134f37d9395c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1097e95f134f37d9395c Fixes: 2ba466d74ed7 ("nilfs2: directory entry operations") Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nilfs2: revise the return value description style for consistency.

2025-01-25T06:47:25Z

Also for comments that do not cause kernel-doc warnings (those that list multiple error codes), revise the return value description style to match Brian G.'s suggestion of "..., or one of the following negative error codes on failure:". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAAq45aNh1qV8P6XgDhKeNstT=PvcPUaCXsAF-f9rvmzznsZL5A@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-8-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Cc: "Brian G ." Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton