From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,stable@vger.kernel.org,konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com,eadavis@qq.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] nilfs2-avoid-having-an-active-sc_timer-before-freeing-sci.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:20:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110052038.61A01C19422@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: nilfs2: avoid having an active sc_timer before freeing sci
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
nilfs2-avoid-having-an-active-sc_timer-before-freeing-sci.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Subject: nilfs2: avoid having an active sc_timer before freeing sci
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:51:52 +0900
Because kthread_stop did not stop sc_task properly and returned -EINTR,
the sc_timer was not properly closed, ultimately causing the problem [1]
reported by syzbot when freeing sci due to the sc_timer not being closed.
Because the thread sc_task main function nilfs_segctor_thread() returns 0
when it succeeds, when the return value of kthread_stop() is not 0 in
nilfs_segctor_destroy(), we believe that it has not properly closed
sc_timer.
We use timer_shutdown_sync() to sync wait for sc_timer to shutdown, and
set the value of sc_task to NULL under the protection of lock
sc_state_lock, so as to avoid the issue caused by sc_timer not being
properly shutdowned.
[1]
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: 00000000dacb411a object type: timer_list hint: nilfs_construction_timeout
Call trace:
nilfs_segctor_destroy fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2811 [inline]
nilfs_detach_log_writer+0x668/0x8cc fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2877
nilfs_put_super+0x4c/0x12c fs/nilfs2/super.c:509
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251029225226.16044-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 3f66cc261ccb ("nilfs2: use kthread_create and kthread_stop for the log writer thread")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24d8b70f039151f65590
Tested-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c~nilfs2-avoid-having-an-active-sc_timer-before-freeing-sci
+++ a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -2768,7 +2768,12 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_destroy(struct
if (sci->sc_task) {
wake_up(&sci->sc_wait_daemon);
- kthread_stop(sci->sc_task);
+ if (kthread_stop(sci->sc_task)) {
+ spin_lock(&sci->sc_state_lock);
+ sci->sc_task = NULL;
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&sci->sc_timer);
+ spin_unlock(&sci->sc_state_lock);
+ }
}
spin_lock(&sci->sc_state_lock);
_
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