[PATCH v5] f2fs: add check for deleted inode

Chao Yu
2025-02-28T01:43:08Z

From: Leo Stone <leocstone@gmail.com>

The syzbot reproducer mounts a f2fs image, then tries to unlink an
existing file. However, the unlinked file already has a link count of 0
when it is read for the first time in do_read_inode().

Add a check to sanity_check_inode() for i_nlink == 0.

[Chao Yu: rebase the code and fix orphan inode recovery issue]
Reported-by: syzbot+b01a36acd7007e273a83@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b01a36acd7007e273a83
Fixes: 39a53e0ce0df ("f2fs: add superblock and major in-memory structure")
Signed-off-by: Leo Stone <leocstone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
---
v5:
- only check i_nlink in lookup()
fs/f2fs/namei.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/namei.c b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
index 949621bc0d07..e39533482b45 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
@@ -502,6 +502,14 @@ static struct dentry *f2fs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
goto out;
}

+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0) {
+ f2fs_warn(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: inode (ino=%lx) has zero i_nlink",
+ __func__, inode->i_ino);
+ err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
+ goto out_iput;
+ }
+
if (IS_ENCRYPTED(dir) &&
(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) &&
!fscrypt_has_permitted_context(dir, inode)) {
--
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