Re: [PATCH v7] f2fs: use post-decrement count for cp_wait wakeup

[Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>]

On 6/18/26 18:05, Wenjie Qi wrote:
> f2fs_write_end_io() decrements the writeback page counter and then reads
> it again with get_pages() to decide whether the last F2FS_WB_CP_DATA
> completion should wake cp_wait.
> 
> That second read can miss the zero transition as below:

Looks comments of v7 patch is quite different from the one of v1 patch?

Quoted from v1:

"f2fs_write_end_io() currently decrements the writeback page counter before
waking sbi->cp_wait for the last F2FS_WB_CP_DATA completion.

That decrement can drop the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA count to zero. It can unblock
a concurrent unmount path waiting in f2fs_wait_on_all_pages(). Unmount can
continue through f2fs_put_super() and eventually free sbi while the end_io
callback is still about to evaluate wq_has_sleeper() and wake_up() on
sbi->cp_wait.

Commit 2d9c4a4ed4ee ("f2fs: fix UAF caused by decrementing sbi->nr_pages[]
in f2fs_write_end_io()") fixed one post-decrement sbi access by moving the
warm-node-list handling before dec_page_count(). The compressed writeback
path follows the same rule and documents that dec_page_count() must be the
last access to sbi when it can drop F2FS_WB_CP_DATA to zero.

Apply the same ordering rule to the cp_wait wakeup. Check whether this is
the last F2FS_WB_CP_DATA completion and wake the waiter before the counter
decrement. Then the callback no longer dereferences sbi->cp_wait after the
lifetime boundary. A waiter that runs before the decrement may observe old
count and sleep until the one-jiffy timeout, but correctness no longer
depends on touching sbi after the counter reaches zero."

I may found something interesting: v7 codes try to fix UAF bug described in
v1 comment, however v7 comment tries to explain what v2 codes want to do.

I suspect your LLM goes another direction after prompted w/ my comments on
patch v1? Let me know I'm wrong. :P

Thanks,

> 
> checkpoint          end_io A              submitter B
> - f2fs_wait_on_all_pages
>   - get_pages() > 0
>   - prepare_to_wait(cp_wait)
>   - io_schedule_timeout
>                      - f2fs_write_end_io
>                       - dec_page_count
>                        : count 1 -> 0
>                                           - f2fs_submit_page_write
>                                            - inc_page_count
>                                             : count 0 -> 1
>                       - get_pages() > 0
>                         : skip wake_up(cp_wait)
> 
> The checkpoint thread can then keep sleeping until
> DEFAULT_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT, even though end_io A completed the old last
> F2FS_WB_CP_DATA page.
> 
> Use the post-decrement value for F2FS_WB_CP_DATA completions so the wakeup
> decision is tied to this completion.  Keep the existing dec_page_count()
> path for other writeback counters.
> 
> Fixes: e234088758fc ("f2fs: avoid wait if IO end up when do_checkpoint for better performance")
> Fixes: ce2739e482bc ("f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com>
> ---
>   fs/f2fs/data.c | 12 +++++++-----
>   fs/f2fs/f2fs.h |  6 ++++++
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> index d83a21998ec2..2afdcd209d54 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> @@ -392,15 +392,17 @@ static void f2fs_write_end_io(struct bio *bio)
>   		if (f2fs_in_warm_node_list(folio))
>   			f2fs_del_fsync_node_entry(sbi, folio);
>   
> -		dec_page_count(sbi, type);
> -
>   		/*
>   		 * we should access sbi before folio_end_writeback() to
>   		 * avoid racing w/ kill_f2fs_super()
>   		 */
> -		if (type == F2FS_WB_CP_DATA && !get_pages(sbi, type) &&
> -				wq_has_sleeper(&sbi->cp_wait))
> -			wake_up(&sbi->cp_wait);
> +		if (type == F2FS_WB_CP_DATA) {
> +			if (!dec_page_count_return(sbi, type) &&
> +			    wq_has_sleeper(&sbi->cp_wait))
> +				wake_up(&sbi->cp_wait);
> +		} else {
> +			dec_page_count(sbi, type);
> +		}
>   
>   		folio_clear_f2fs_gcing(folio);
>   		folio_end_writeback(folio);
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> index 9f24287de4c3..db750cef371d 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> @@ -2776,6 +2776,12 @@ static inline void dec_page_count(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int count_type)
>   	atomic_dec(&sbi->nr_pages[count_type]);
>   }
>   
> +static inline int dec_page_count_return(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
> +					int count_type)
> +{
> +	return atomic_dec_return(&sbi->nr_pages[count_type]);
> +}
> +
>   static inline void inode_dec_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode)
>   {
>   	if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
> 
> base-commit: c0b65f6129c7fbb526e921dd60261650f1b2bef9