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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/17] afs: Remove setting of AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS for symlinks and mountpoints
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:48:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260618074903.2374756-5-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260618074903.2374756-1-dhowells@redhat.com>

Regular AFS files correctly use afs_file_aops which have release_folio
set as netfs_release_folio, so AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS is valid for them
when fscache is enabled (set via afs_vnode_set_cache()).
Symlinks and mountpoints in AFS use afs_dir_aops, which does not provide
a release_folio callback. However, afs_apply_status() unconditionally
calls mapping_set_release_always() for these.

In such case when memory management code attempts to release folios,
filemap_release_folio() checks folio_needs_release() which
returns true due to AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS being set. Since there is no
release_folio callback, it falls through to try_to_free_buffers(),
which at present expects buffer_heads to be not null. For symlinks
and mountpoints without buffer_heads, this causes pointer dereference.

Fixes: eae9e78951bb ("afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached")
Signed-off-by: Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
---
 fs/afs/inode.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c
index 3f48458694ba..21ac098d03ef 100644
--- a/fs/afs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/afs/inode.c
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ static int afs_inode_init_from_status(struct afs_operation *op,
 		}
 		inode->i_mapping->a_ops	= &afs_symlink_aops;
 		inode_nohighmem(inode);
-		mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping);
 		break;
 	default:
 		dump_vnode(vnode, op->file[0].vnode != vnode ? op->file[0].vnode : NULL);


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-18  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-18  7:48 [PATCH v2 00/17] afs: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] afs: handle CB.InitCallBackState3 requests without a server record David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] afs: Fix error code in afs_extract_vl_addrs() David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree() David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` David Howells [this message]
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] afs: use kvfree() to free memory allocated by kvcalloc() David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] afs: Remove erroneous seq |= 1 in volume lookup loop David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] afs: check for duplicate servers in VL server list David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] afs: Fix bulk lookup malfunction due to change in dir_emit() API David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] afs: Fix reinitialisation of the inode, in particular ->lock_work David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] afs: Fix callback service message parsers to pass through -EAGAIN David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] afs: Fix double netfs initialisation in afs_root_iget() David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] afs: Don't use AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS for dir/symlinks part 2 David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] afs: Remove erroneous seq |= 1 in volume lookup loop David Howells
2026-06-18  8:25   ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-06-18 11:59     ` David Howells
2026-06-18  8:43   ` 答复: [????] " Li,Rongqing
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] afs: Fix leak of ungot volume David Howells
2026-06-18  7:48 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] afs: Fix missing NULL pointer check in afs_break_some_callbacks() David Howells
2026-06-18  7:49 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] afs: Fix vllist leak David Howells

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