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From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Daejun Park" <daejun7.park@samsung.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: don't advance j_fc_off before the buffer is recorded
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:17:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819061725.633F31F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819060939epcms2p37bb8589b2f8a52a2b14bef38fadcf69d@epcms2p3>

> jbd2_fc_get_buf() increments journal->j_fc_off before jbd2_journal_bmap()
> and __getblk() have had a chance to fail.  When either does, the slot
> j_fc_wbuf[fc_off] is never assigned, but j_fc_off already counts it.
> 
> ext4 then fails the fast commit and falls back, and the fallback path
> reaches jbd2_fc_release_bufs() via ext4_fc_commit ->
> jbd2_fc_end_commit_fallback -> __jbd2_fc_end_commit -> ext4_fc_cleanup.
> That walks down from j_fc_off - 1 and put_bh()es every slot until it
> sees NULL, so it also touches the slot that was never written.
> j_fc_wbuf comes from a plain kmalloc() and is never zeroed, so a slot
> used for the first time holds uninitialised heap data.
> 
> Advance j_fc_off only after the buffer head has been stored.  That
> restores the invariant that j_fc_off covers exactly the filled slots,
> which is what jbd2_fc_release_bufs() relies on: the live buffers of the
> [ ... ]
> 
> Fixes: ff780b91efe9 ("jbd2: add fast commit machinery")
> Reported-by: Yu Junzhe <junzheyu1@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/7e4b109d-64c3-444f-a5dc-93c2ca4576cc@gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Daejun Park <daejun7.park@samsung.com>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-19  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2026-08-19  6:09 ` [PATCH] jbd2: don't advance j_fc_off before the buffer is recorded Daejun Park
2026-08-19  6:17   ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-08-19 12:04   ` Jan Kara

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