From: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
To: mark@fasheh.com, jlbec@evilplan.org, joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, ghe@suse.com
Cc: ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
baijiaju1990@gmail.com, jjzuming@gmail.com, zzzccc427@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: Publish the filecheck owner before adding sysfs attributes
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 18:04:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pm-ocfs2-objects-candidate-0086-v2-646731c4254a02823b4d@gmail.com> (raw)
ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs() initializes the filecheck allocation
before calling kobject_init_and_add(), but assigns entry->fs_fcheck
only after that call returns. The default attribute group can already
be visible while registration is in progress. A concurrent read can
therefore enter ocfs2_filecheck_attr_show() with a NULL fs_fcheck and
try to lock its fc_lock.
Assign the initialized owner before adding the kobject, so every
activated attribute has valid state. Clear the pointer when addition
fails, preserving the existing teardown guard and error cleanup.
A controlled probe-instrumented test kernel with the original OCFS2
registration ordering produced this Oops during a concurrent sysfs read:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__kasan_check_byte+0x13/0x50
lock_acquire+0x113/0x300
_raw_spin_lock+0x31/0x40
ocfs2_filecheck_attr_show+0x138/0x5f0
ocfs2_filecheck_show+0x5d/0x90
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1d3/0x360
seq_read_iter+0x480/0x1110
kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x419/0x5a0
vfs_read+0x7d2/0xc20
ksys_read+0x111/0x200
do_syscall_64+0x114/0x620
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
Fixes: a860f6eb4c6a ("ocfs2: sysfile interfaces for online file check")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
---
fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
index be713d7d24a76b9aa8fcded3d83b3d91d124eb6e..862c1ee7099c943b2e3e57e31f887380c6dc8a88 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
@@ -181,2 +181,4 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
+ /* Publish the initialized owner before activating its sysfs callbacks. */
+ entry->fs_fcheck = fcheck;
entry->fs_kobj.kset = osb->osb_dev_kset;
@@ -186,2 +188,3 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
if (ret) {
+ entry->fs_fcheck = NULL;
kobject_put(&entry->fs_kobj);
@@ -191,3 +194,2 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
- entry->fs_fcheck = fcheck;
return 0;
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 10:04 UTC|newest]
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2026-10-09 10:04 Cen Zhang [this message]
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