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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 v4 05/21] afs: Remove setting of AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS for symlinks and mountpoints
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260622090856.2746629-6-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260622090856.2746629-1-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.

[dh: Added more bits that were missed]

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    | 7 +++----
 fs/afs/internal.h | 2 --
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c
index a88995629d72..54ac6ec21daf 100644
--- a/fs/afs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/afs/inode.c
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ static noinline void dump_vnode(struct afs_vnode *vnode, struct afs_vnode *paren
 /*
  * Set parameters for the netfs library
  */
-static void afs_set_netfs_context(struct afs_vnode *vnode)
+static void afs_set_netfs_context(struct afs_vnode *vnode, bool is_file)
 {
-	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, &afs_req_ops, true);
+	netfs_inode_init(&vnode->netfs, &afs_req_ops, is_file);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -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);
@@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ static int afs_inode_init_from_status(struct afs_operation *op,
 
 	i_size_write(inode, status->size);
 	inode_set_bytes(inode, status->size);
-	afs_set_netfs_context(vnode);
+	afs_set_netfs_context(vnode, status->type == AFS_FTYPE_FILE);
 
 	vnode->invalid_before	= status->data_version;
 	trace_afs_set_dv(vnode, status->data_version);
diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
index 0b72a8566299..785c646856d7 100644
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -750,8 +750,6 @@ static inline void afs_vnode_set_cache(struct afs_vnode *vnode,
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE
 	vnode->netfs.cache = cookie;
-	if (cookie)
-		mapping_set_release_always(vnode->netfs.inode.i_mapping);
 #endif
 }
 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-22  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-22  9:08 [PATCH v4 00/21] afs: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] afs: handle CB.InitCallBackState3 requests without a server record David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] afs: Fix error code in afs_extract_vl_addrs() David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree() David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] afs: Fix double netfs initialisation in afs_root_iget() David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` David Howells [this message]
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] afs: Fix directory inode initialisation order David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 07/21] afs: use kvfree() to free memory allocated by kvcalloc() David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] afs: Remove erroneous seq |= 1 in volume lookup loop David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] afs: check for duplicate servers in VL server list David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] afs: Fix bulk lookup malfunction due to change in dir_emit() API David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] afs: Fix reinitialisation of the inode, in particular ->lock_work David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] afs: Fix callback service message parsers to pass through -EAGAIN David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] afs: Use scoped_seqlock_read() rather than manually doing seqlock stuff David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] afs: Fix missing NULL pointer check in afs_break_some_callbacks() David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] afs: Fix leak of ungot volume David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 17/21] afs: Fix vllist leak David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] afs: Fix lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] afs: Fix premature cell exposure through /afs David Howells
2026-06-22  9:29   ` David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] afs: Fix the volume AFS_VOLUME_RM_TREE is set on David Howells
2026-06-22  9:08 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] afs: Fix unchecked-length string display in debug statement David Howells
2026-06-22 14:37 ` [PATCH v4 00/21] afs: Miscellaneous fixes Christian Brauner

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