From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>,
Li Zetao <lizetao1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] ocfs2: exit recovery thread on mount error path
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:28:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260828112825.666097-1-joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
When a mount fails after the cluster connection has been established,
e.g. in ocfs2_mount_volume(), ocfs2_fill_super() unwinds via
out_debugfs/out_super and frees the osb without disabling recovery.
A node failure event can concurrently launch the recovery thread, which
blocks in __ocfs2_wait_on_mount() waiting for the volume state to
become VOLUME_MOUNTED or VOLUME_DISABLED. As the mount error path
neither sets VOLUME_DISABLED nor wakes osb_mount_event, the thread can
never make progress: the kthread leaks and stays blocked on the wait
queue embedded in the freed osb, which may then be accessed as freed
memory.
Fix it by setting VOLUME_DISABLED and waking osb_mount_event on this
path so the thread bails out, and replace the plain
kfree(osb->recovery_map) with ocfs2_recovery_exit(), which waits for a
running recovery thread to exit before the recovery map is freed.
Fixes: f1e75d128b46 ("ocfs2: rewrite error handling of ocfs2_fill_super")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
---
fs/ocfs2/super.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index c62e389d4dd6..f785c39d1fb8 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -1169,8 +1169,17 @@ static int ocfs2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
out_debugfs:
debugfs_remove_recursive(osb->osb_debug_root);
out_super:
+ /*
+ * A recovery thread launched by a node failure event may still be
+ * waiting for the volume to be mounted. Set VOLUME_DISABLED and
+ * wake it up, then wait for it to exit before osb is freed,
+ * otherwise the kthread would leak and stay blocked on the wait
+ * queue embedded in the freed osb.
+ */
+ atomic_set(&osb->vol_state, VOLUME_DISABLED);
+ wake_up(&osb->osb_mount_event);
ocfs2_release_system_inodes(osb);
- kfree(osb->recovery_map);
+ ocfs2_recovery_exit(osb);
ocfs2_delete_osb(osb);
kfree(osb);
out:
--
2.39.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-28 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-28 11:28 Joseph Qi [this message]
2026-08-28 11:28 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] ocfs2: free replay slots in ocfs2_recovery_exit() Joseph Qi
2026-08-29 0:01 ` Heming Zhao
2026-08-28 11:28 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ocfs2: defer suballocator block group reclaim to workqueue Joseph Qi
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