From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>, Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 7.3.y] erofs: fix metadata reads at the end of file-backed images
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:47:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111044726.1162691-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107050539-failed-7.3-52dceb88082b@kernel.org>
From: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
[ Upstream commit 52dceb88082b4c7983d1c8c7de1c181f018055ac ]
Commit e587a984d332 ("erofs: use dedicated meta inodes for file-backed
mounts") made erofs_read_meta_folio() read the metadata of a
file-backed mount one whole folio at a time.
However, an image only has to be a multiple of its block size. With a
block size below the page size, it can end in the middle of a page. The
read of that last page is then short, and erofs_fileio_ki_complete()
fails it with -EIO. As of now, inodes in the last page of such an image
cannot be read, and an image smaller than a page cannot be mounted.
The issue can be reproduced with util-linux 2.41, whose mount uses the
image file directly:
mkdir src
for i in $(seq 50); do echo $i > src/$i; done
mkfs.erofs -b512 test.erofs src
mount -t erofs test.erofs /mnt
ls -l /mnt
Before that commit, ls -l lists all 50 files. After it, ls -l reports
"Input/output error" for 24 of them.
This patch reads the folio only up to the end of the backing file and
zeroes the rest, as the page cache of the backing file did before. A
folio that lies wholly past the end is zeroed without a read.
Fixes: e587a984d332 ("erofs: use dedicated meta inodes for file-backed mounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang (Docker) <xiang@kernel.org>
[ sashal: adjusted context to retain the older metadata I/O allocation and completion mechanism ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/erofs/fileio.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/erofs/fileio.c b/fs/erofs/fileio.c
index ebb81a7ffd4cb..ac846cfbc5633 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/fileio.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/fileio.c
@@ -201,17 +201,29 @@ int erofs_read_meta_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
.dev = { .m_pa = folio_pos(folio), },
};
struct inode *inode = folio_inode(folio);
+ size_t len = folio_size(folio);
+ loff_t pos, isize;
int err;
err = erofs_map_dev(inode->i_sb, &io.dev);
if (err)
return err;
+ pos = io.dev.m_dif->fsoff + io.dev.m_pa;
+ isize = i_size_read(file_inode(io.dev.m_dif->file));
+ if (pos + folio_size(folio) > isize) {
+ len = isize > pos ? isize - pos : 0;
+ folio_zero_segment(folio, len, folio_size(folio));
+ if (!len) {
+ folio_end_read(folio, true);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
io.rq = erofs_fileio_rq_alloc(&io.dev);
- io.rq->bio.bi_iter.bi_sector =
- (io.dev.m_dif->fsoff + io.dev.m_pa) >> 9;
+ io.rq->bio.bi_iter.bi_sector = pos >> 9;
erofs_onlinefolio_init(folio);
- bio_add_folio_nofail(&io.rq->bio, folio, folio_size(folio), 0);
+ bio_add_folio_nofail(&io.rq->bio, folio, len, 0);
erofs_fileio_rq_submit(io.rq);
return 0;
}
--
2.53.0
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