From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+f8ce6c197125ab9d72ce@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: fix recursive tree_lock in hfsplus_file_extend()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:01:33 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910160133.27143-1-ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73cc2e394cc0269a62e2e6503aac5fef2a3ac65a.camel@dubeyko.com>
Hi Slava,
> Probably, hfs_bmap_reserve() is the proper place for checking
> capability of growing Extents Overflow file. But it needs to take
> into account that if fork has empty extents, then we can grow the
> b-tree. We have -ENOSPC situation only if we already used all
> extents in the fork.
Right, and it turns out the existing control flow already computes
exactly that, so I kept the check in extents.c rather than duplicating
fork-layout knowledge in hfs_bmap_reserve(): hfsplus_add_extent()
returns -ENOSPC only when it has walked all eight slots and the last
one can't be extended contiguously (the ++i >= 8 case). If there's an
empty slot, or the last extent can be grown in place, it consumes that
and returns 0 -- hfsplus_file_extend() never reaches the
"insert_extent" label in that case. So arriving at insert_extent
already means the fork is exhausted; no slot scan needed there.
v2, two hunks in the same function:
--- a/fs/hfsplus/extents.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/extents.c
@@ -458,6 +458,15 @@ int hfsplus_file_extend(struct inode *inode, bool zeroout)
if (hip->alloc_blocks == hip->first_blocks)
goal = hfsplus_ext_lastblock(hip->first_extents);
else {
+ /*
+ * The fork already claims more blocks than its eight extents
+ * describe (a corrupt on-disk fork): looking up the rest
+ * would re-enter hfs_find_init() on the extents tree, whose
+ * tree_lock is already held here.
+ */
+ if (inode->i_ino == HFSPLUS_EXT_CNID) {
+ res = -ENOSPC;
+ goto out;
+ }
res = hfsplus_ext_read_extent(inode, hip->alloc_blocks);
if (res)
goto out;
@@ -534,6 +543,15 @@ int hfsplus_file_extend(struct inode *inode, bool zeroout)
return res;
insert_extent:
+ /*
+ * Getting here means the fork's eight extents are exhausted (see
+ * hfsplus_add_extent()). The extents overflow file can't record
+ * an overflow extent of its own, so it cannot grow any further.
+ */
+ if (inode->i_ino == HFSPLUS_EXT_CNID) {
+ res = -ENOSPC;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
hfs_dbg("insert new extent\n");
res = hfsplus_ext_write_extent_locked(inode);
if (res)
First hunk: fork was already inconsistent when read from disk at
mount. Second hunk: fork was consistent but genuinely ran out of the
eight slots during this call -- your ENOSPC case. Both land on the
same tree_lock recursion, so both need the guard.
On the severity split you described (consistent first extent + garbage
elsewhere -> construct + flag inconsistent + read-only; unusable first
extent -> hard error, mount fails): agreed, and that's the direction
I'll take the fork-validator follow-up once this one's in, applying it
to all three trees as you asked.
Both hunks build cleanly here.
Thanks,
Thang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-06 15:49 [PATCH] hfsplus: fix recursive tree_lock in hfsplus_file_extend() ThangNN99
2026-09-07 17:05 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-07 17:15 ` ThangNN99
2026-09-07 17:26 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-08 11:54 ` ThangNN99
2026-09-08 17:39 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-09 16:20 ` Nguyen Ngoc Thang
2026-09-09 18:36 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-10 16:01 ` Nguyen Ngoc Thang [this message]
2026-09-10 19:20 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-11 11:46 ` Nguyen Ngoc Thang
2026-09-11 18:26 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] hfsplus: fix the extents overflow file recursive tree_lock and its root cause Nguyen Ngoc Thang
2026-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] hfsplus: fix recursive tree_lock in hfsplus_file_extend() Nguyen Ngoc Thang
2026-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] hfsplus: validate b-tree fork extents at mount time Nguyen Ngoc Thang
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