From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nanzhe Zhao <zhaonanzhe@xiaomi.com>, Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] f2fs: remove mappedtodisk flag usage in mmap write path
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:37:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110173704.2986892-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107060537-failed-5.15-b3c984358925@kernel.org>
From: Nanzhe Zhao <zhaonanzhe@xiaomi.com>
[ Upstream commit b3c9843589257631bac18f30655e82d88970688a ]
PG_mappedtodisk was inherited from the nobh/buffer-head era. However,
f2fs has no buffer heads and the flag is no longer meaningful. The only
user of the flag is the "no holes" shortcut in f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite(),
which makes mmap write faults skip marking the folio dirty. Moreover,
it causes the following race condition with filesystem freezing:
CPU0 (write fault) CPU1 (freeze_super)
---- ----
f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite()
sb_start_pagefault()
/* shortcut: no dirty */
sb_end_pagefault()
sb_wait_write(SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT)
/* no waiter, passes */
sync_filesystem()
/* folio not dirty, skipped */
finish_fault()
/* PTE writable */
fault_dirty_shared_page()
folio_mark_dirty()
/* dirty folio on a frozen fs */
It will also skip APP_MAPPED_IO iostat/REQ_TIME updates and post-EOF
folio zeroing.
Remove this shortcut in f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite() and stop setting it in
f2fs_read_single_page().
Reported-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/496b913c-eb81-4fa8-be72-c6a06a10aba2@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Fixes: fbfa2cc58d53 ("f2fs: add file operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nanzhe Zhao <zhaonanzhe@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
[ sashal: adapted folio flag removals to the page-based SetPageMappedToDisk() and PageMappedToDisk() APIs ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/f2fs/data.c | 1 -
fs/f2fs/file.c | 6 ------
2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index 90cb8560af1d0..eceb3179173d0 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -2163,7 +2163,6 @@ static int f2fs_read_single_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
got_it:
if ((map->m_flags & F2FS_MAP_MAPPED)) {
block_nr = map->m_pblk + block_in_file - map->m_lblk;
- SetPageMappedToDisk(page);
if (!PageUptodate(page) && (!PageSwapCache(page) &&
!cleancache_get_page(page))) {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 892f19f67904f..dd4eab6367a66 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -135,12 +135,6 @@ static vm_fault_t f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
/* wait for GCed page writeback via META_MAPPING */
f2fs_wait_on_block_writeback(inode, dn.data_blkaddr);
- /*
- * check to see if the page is mapped already (no holes)
- */
- if (PageMappedToDisk(page))
- goto out_sem;
-
/* page is wholly or partially inside EOF */
if (((loff_t)(page->index + 1) << PAGE_SHIFT) >
i_size_read(inode)) {
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-07 11:05 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: remove mappedtodisk flag usage in mmap write path" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree Sasha Levin
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