From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>,
syzbot+afa7aef0c237038586e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block: make blkdev_fallocate() zeroout killable
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:15:28 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260927051528.34698-1-ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com> (raw)
blkdev_fallocate() zeroes the requested range while holding i_rwsem
and invalidate_lock exclusively, but does not pass BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE
to blkdev_issue_zeroout(). On a large device that falls back to
writing zero pages (e.g. null_blk), the loop keeps going after the
caller received SIGKILL, and every buffered reader of the device
blocks behind it:
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x61e/0x920 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1086
down_read+0x99/0x2e0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1539
blkdev_read_iter+0x2f8/0x440 block/fops.c:854
syzbot reports this as a hung task. BLKZEROOUT already sets the flag
for the same reason; do the same for fallocate.
Reported-by: syzbot+afa7aef0c237038586e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=afa7aef0c237038586e7
Fixes: 25f4c41415e5 ("block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>
---
block/fops.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
index 2ce7c6c4714e..a2fe27d8ceff 100644
--- a/block/fops.c
+++ b/block/fops.c
@@ -909,7 +909,8 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
goto fail;
error = blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> SECTOR_SHIFT,
- len >> SECTOR_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL, flags);
+ len >> SECTOR_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL,
+ flags | BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE);
fail:
filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
inode_unlock(inode);
--
2.43.0
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