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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y] ext4: free the sbi after a grace period
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:36:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021213613.466431-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026102104-stitch-grievous-60d8@gregkh>

From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit c17b44266a1f9fcb49b894d4611d1254bf1aa313 ]

ext4_get_link() follows a symlink that keeps its target in a data block
in rcu pathwalk mode with ext4_getblk(EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CACHED_NOWAIT).
That reads s_mount_state in the ASSERT() of ext4_getblk() and again in
ext4_es_lookup_extent(), and the lookup bumps the extent status hit or
miss counter, all through sb->s_fs_info.

ext4_put_super() destroys those counters, clears sb->s_fs_info and frees
the sbi without waiting for a grace period. A pathwalk that is still in
ext4_get_link() when the last reference to the mount goes away then
dereferences a NULL s_fs_info, the freed sbi or the destroyed percpu
counters.

With a pathwalk held up in ext4_get_link() while the last reference
goes away:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000a8-0x00000000000000af]
  RIP: 0010:ext4_getblk+0xf0/0x640
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ext4_get_link+0x26c/0x410
   pick_link+0xf96/0x1780
   step_into_slowpath+0x9b8/0x1250
   path_lookupat+0x484/0xb00
   filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0
   vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0
   vfs_fstatat+0x4d/0x90
   __do_sys_newfstatat+0xa0/0x100
   do_syscall_64+0x10e/0x5e0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

So far that has been hard to hit. umount(2) waits for a grace period in
namespace_unlock() before it drops the mount, so only a mount whose last
reference goes away elsewhere, like the close of a file or a chdir out of
a lazily unmounted directory, can race a walker.

Keep sb->s_fs_info and free the sbi together with the extent status
counters after a grace period. Split the counters out of
ext4_es_unregister_shrinker() for that. The shrinker still gets wasted
in ext4_put_super(), the counters go with the sbi.

Fixes: 6493792d3299 ("ext4: convert symlink external data block mapping to bdev")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009-work-fixes-rcu-v1-1-7446d2d335e6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
[ sashal: Replaced shrinker_free() with unregister_shrinker() for the embedded shrinker. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h           |  2 ++
 fs/ext4/extents_status.c |  7 ++++++-
 fs/ext4/extents_status.h |  1 +
 fs/ext4/super.c          | 13 +++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 5654a1cd2b4af..58746c5130ac6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1669,6 +1669,8 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
 	struct list_head s_es_list;	/* List of inodes with reclaimable extents */
 	long s_es_nr_inode;
 	struct ext4_es_stats s_es_stats;
+	/* ext4_get_link() reads the sbi in rcu pathwalk */
+	struct rcu_head s_rcu;
 	struct mb_cache *s_ea_block_cache;
 	struct mb_cache *s_ea_inode_cache;
 	spinlock_t s_es_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
index d9d5cfb9c951a..cd5160e72d5ae 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
@@ -1749,12 +1749,17 @@ int ext4_es_register_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
 }
 
 void ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
+{
+	unregister_shrinker(&sbi->s_es_shrinker);
+}
+
+/* ext4_get_link() bumps the hit and miss counters in rcu pathwalk */
+void ext4_es_destroy_stats(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
 {
 	percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_hits);
 	percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_misses);
 	percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_all_cnt);
 	percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_shk_cnt);
-	unregister_shrinker(&sbi->s_es_shrinker);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
index d9847a4a25dba..b2c6579b2c9dd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static inline void ext4_es_store_pblock_status(struct extent_status *es,
 
 extern int ext4_es_register_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi);
 extern void ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi);
+extern void ext4_es_destroy_stats(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi);
 
 extern int ext4_seq_es_shrinker_info_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v);
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 349e2b087769d..94d40e03ff2f0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1289,6 +1289,14 @@ static void ext4_flex_groups_free(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
 	}
 }
 
+static void ext4_put_sbi_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = container_of(head, struct ext4_sb_info, s_rcu);
+
+	ext4_es_destroy_stats(sbi);
+	kfree(sbi);
+}
+
 static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
@@ -1378,7 +1386,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	ext4_stop_mmpd(sbi);
 
 	brelse(sbi->s_sbh);
-	sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
 	/*
 	 * Now that we are completely done shutting down the
 	 * superblock, we need to actually destroy the kobject.
@@ -1393,7 +1400,8 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE)
 	utf8_unload(sb->s_encoding);
 #endif
-	kfree(sbi);
+	/* ext4_get_link() reads the sbi and the counters in rcu pathwalk */
+	call_rcu(&sbi->s_rcu, ext4_put_sbi_rcu);
 }
 
 static struct kmem_cache *ext4_inode_cachep;
@@ -5688,6 +5696,7 @@ failed_mount8: __maybe_unused
 	}
 failed_mount3a:
 	ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(sbi);
+	ext4_es_destroy_stats(sbi);
 failed_mount3:
 	/* flush s_sb_upd_work before sbi destroy */
 	flush_work(&sbi->s_sb_upd_work);
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 21:36 UTC|newest]

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2026-10-21 14:38 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: free the sbi after a grace period" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
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