Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2026-03-24

Re: [syzbot] [nilfs?] WARNING in nilfs_ioctl_prepare_clean_segments

From: Junjie Cao <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-24 10:46:29
Also in: stable
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), nilfs2 filesystem, the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Ryusuke Konishi, Viacheslav Dubeyko, Linus Torvalds

Please test the following patch.

From: Junjie Cao <redacted>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: skip blocks with no bmap entry in
 nilfs_ioctl_mark_blocks_dirty()

In nilfs_ioctl_mark_blocks_dirty(), called during garbage collection,
nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level() may return -ENOENT when a block no longer
exists in the DAT bmap.  In that case the code sets bd_blocknr to 0 but
falls through to the liveness check that compares bd_blocknr against
bd_oblocknr.  If bd_oblocknr also happens to be 0, the descriptor is
incorrectly treated as live and the code attempts to get or mark the
non-existent block, triggering a WARN_ON.

Fix this by adding a continue statement so that a block descriptor is
immediately skipped when its bmap lookup returns -ENOENT, since there
is no block in the DAT to mark dirty.

Fixes: 7942b919f732 ("nilfs2: ioctl operations")
Reported-by: syzbot+466a45fcfb0562f5b9a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=466a45fcfb0562f5b9a0
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao <redacted>
---
 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
index 1bfe8a2..d71a0a5 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_mark_blocks_dirty(struct the_nilfs *nilfs,
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			if (ret != -ENOENT)
 				return ret;
 			bdescs[i].bd_blocknr = 0;
+			continue;
 		}
 		if (bdescs[i].bd_blocknr != bdescs[i].bd_oblocknr)
 			/* skip dead block */
--
2.43.0
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