FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 39d4ee19c1e7d753dd655aebee632271b171f43a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026042402-grievance-choosy-4ff8@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 39d4ee19c1e7d753dd655aebee632271b171f43a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Saad <geoo115@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:21:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in
 f2fs_compress_write_end_io()
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In f2fs_compress_write_end_io(), dec_page_count(sbi, type) can bring
the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter to zero, unblocking
f2fs_wait_on_all_pages() in f2fs_put_super() on a concurrent unmount
CPU. The unmount path then proceeds to call
f2fs_destroy_page_array_cache(sbi), which destroys
sbi->page_array_slab via kmem_cache_destroy(), and eventually
kfree(sbi). Meanwhile, the bio completion callback is still executing:
when it reaches page_array_free(sbi, ...), it dereferences
sbi->page_array_slab — a destroyed slab cache — to call
kmem_cache_free(), causing a use-after-free.

This is the same class of bug as CVE-2026-23234 (which fixed the
equivalent race in f2fs_write_end_io() in data.c), but in the
compressed writeback completion path that was not covered by that fix.

Fix this by moving dec_page_count() to after page_array_free(), so
that all sbi accesses complete before the counter decrement that can
unblock unmount. For non-last folios (where atomic_dec_return on
cic->pending_pages is nonzero), dec_page_count is called immediately
before returning — page_array_free is not reached on this path, so
there is no post-decrement sbi access. For the last folio,
page_array_free runs while the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter is still
nonzero (this folio has not yet decremented it), keeping sbi alive,
and dec_page_count runs as the final operation.

Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: George Saad <geoo115@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/compress.c b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
index 8c76400ba631..aa8ba4cdfe34 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/compress.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
@@ -1491,10 +1491,10 @@ void f2fs_compress_write_end_io(struct bio *bio, struct folio *folio)
 
 	f2fs_compress_free_page(page);
 
-	dec_page_count(sbi, type);
-
-	if (atomic_dec_return(&cic->pending_pages))
+	if (atomic_dec_return(&cic->pending_pages)) {
+		dec_page_count(sbi, type);
 		return;
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cic->nr_rpages; i++) {
 		WARN_ON(!cic->rpages[i]);
@@ -1504,6 +1504,14 @@ void f2fs_compress_write_end_io(struct bio *bio, struct folio *folio)
 
 	page_array_free(sbi, cic->rpages, cic->nr_rpages);
 	kmem_cache_free(cic_entry_slab, cic);
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure dec_page_count() is the last access to sbi.
+	 * Once it drops the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter to zero, the
+	 * unmount thread can proceed to destroy sbi and
+	 * sbi->page_array_slab.
+	 */
+	dec_page_count(sbi, type);
 }
 
 static int f2fs_write_raw_pages(struct compress_ctx *cc,