From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: kernel-dev@igalia.com, gfs2@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gfs2: handle errors from __filemap_get_folio() with FGP_CREAT in gfs2_getbuf()
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:16:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908-gfs2_getbuf-error-checks-v1-1-7c59698f178f@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908-gfs2_getbuf-error-checks-v1-0-7c59698f178f@igalia.com>
Function __filemap_get_folio() with FGP_CREAT might fail, for example, with
ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). This hits a kernel oops, as gfs2_getbuf() dereferences an
error pointer:
gfs2: fsid=loop0: Trying to join cluster "lock_nolock", "loop0"
gfs2: fsid=loop0: Now mounting FS (format 1802)...
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
...
RIP: 0010:gfs2_getbuf+0x492/0x5a0
[ ...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
gfs2_meta_read+0x106/0x7a0
gfs2_meta_buffer+0x125/0x360
inode_go_instantiate+0xde/0x1510
gfs2_instantiate+0x102/0x1c0
gfs2_glock_wait+0x19a/0x2c0
gfs2_lookupi+0x2ba/0x570
gfs2_lookup_meta+0xad/0x160
init_inodes+0x350/0x20b0
gfs2_fill_super+0x19b6/0x2730
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x2f4/0x560
gfs2_get_tree+0x48/0x230
vfs_get_tree+0x87/0x2d0
vfs_cmd_create+0xb2/0x240
__do_sys_fsconfig+0x3d2/0x980
do_syscall_64+0xce/0x450
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
</TASK>
That is noted more clearly in convenience function filemap_grab_folio()
(snippet below) and checked by virtually all other callers in the kernel.
...
* Return: A found or created folio. ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) if no folio is found
* and failed to create a folio.
...
static inline struct folio *filemap_grab_folio(...)
{
return __filemap_get_folio(...,
... | FGP_CREAT,
...);
}
Thus, if __filemap_get_folio() returns an error, log it (as it's lost) and
return NULL. Callers will be handled.
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
---
fs/gfs2/meta_io.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index a87cfbf0df38706e6b7c63cc55f5251765d6b398..51b1a2e2bfadea6dabfac5ecba983c615a1a69fa 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ struct buffer_head *gfs2_getbuf(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 blkno, int create)
folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, index,
FGP_LOCK | FGP_ACCESSED | FGP_CREAT,
mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
+ fs_err(sdp, "Error %ld creating buffer\n", PTR_ERR(folio));
+ return NULL;
+ }
bh = folio_buffers(folio);
if (!bh)
bh = create_empty_buffers(folio,
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 21:16 [PATCH 0/5] gfs2: handle errors from __filemap_get_folio() with FGP_CREAT in gfs2_getbuf() and its caller chain Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 21:16 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira [this message]
2026-09-08 21:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] gfs2: handle NULL return value in callers of gfs2_getbuf() with CREATE Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 21:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] gfs2: handle NULL return value in callers of gfs2_meta_new() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 21:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] gfs2: handle NULL return value in callers of gfs2_meta_ra() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 21:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] gfs2: check for errors from filemap_get_folio() in gfs2_jhead_process_page() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
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