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We've had rather rare reports of bmap btree block corruption where the bmap root block has a level count of zero. The root cause of the corruption is so far unknown. We do have verifier checks to detect this form of on-disk corruption, but this doesn't cover a memory corruption variant of the problem. The latter is a reasonable possibility because the root block is part of the inode fork and can reside in-core for some time before inode extents are read. If this occurs, it leads to a system crash such as the following: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff00000221 PF error: [normal kernel read fault] ... RIP: 0010:xfs_trans_brelse+0xf/0x200 [xfs] ... Call Trace: xfs_iread_extents+0x379/0x540 [xfs] xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay+0x11a/0xb40 [xfs] ? xfs_attr_get+0xd1/0x120 [xfs] ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0 xfs_file_iomap_begin+0x4c4/0x6d0 [xfs] ? __vfs_getxattr+0x53/0x70 ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0 iomap_apply+0x63/0x130 ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0 iomap_file_buffered_write+0x62/0x90 ? iomap_write_begin.constprop.40+0x2d0/0x2d0 xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0xe4/0x3b0 [xfs] __vfs_write+0x150/0x1b0 vfs_write+0xba/0x1c0 ksys_pwrite64+0x64/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe The crash occurs because xfs_iread_extents() attempts to release an uninitialized buffer pointer as the level == 0 value prevented the buffer from ever being allocated or read. Change the level > 0 assert to an explicit error check in xfs_iread_extents() to avoid crashing the kernel in the event of localized, in-core inode corruption. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.