From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] block: reject zero length in bio_add_page()
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:36:34 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc2223c080f38d0b63f968f605c918181c840f40.1773734749.git.wqu@suse.com> (raw)
The function bio_add_page() returns the number of bytes added to the
bio, and if that failed it should return 0.
However there is a special quirk, if a caller is passing a page with
length 0, that function will always return 0 but with different results:
- The page is added to the bio
If there is enough bvec slot or the folio can be merged with the last
bvec.
The return value 0 is just the length passed in, which is also 0.
- The page is not added to the bio
If the page is not mergeable with the last bvec, or there is no bvec
slot available.
The return value 0 means page is not added into the bio.
Unfortunately the caller is not able to distinguish the above two cases,
and will treat the 0 return value as page addition failure.
In that case, this can lead to the double releasing of the last page:
- By the bio cleanup
Which normally goes through every page of the bio, including the last
page which is added into the bio.
- By the caller
Which believes the page is not added into the bio, thus would manually
release the page.
I do not think anyone should call bio_add_folio()/bio_add_page() with zero
length, but idiots like me can still show up.
So add an extra WARN_ON_ONCE() check for zero length and rejects it
early to avoid double freeing.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
---
Changelog:
- Rewords the commit message
---
block/bio.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index d80d5d26804e..6048d9382fec 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,8 @@ int bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
{
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED)))
return 0;
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(len == 0))
+ return 0;
if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > BIO_MAX_SIZE - len)
return 0;
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 8:07 UTC|newest]
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2026-03-17 8:06 Qu Wenruo [this message]
2026-03-18 1:32 ` [PATCH v2] block: reject zero length in bio_add_page() Jens Axboe
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