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SubjectRe: [f2fs-dev] [f2fs bug] infinite loop in f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail()
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Jaegeuk,

I guess you missed sending last applied patch to mailing list?

Thanks,

On 2020/10/9 22:56, jaegeuk@kernel.org wrote:
> On 10/09, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2020/10/9 12:32, jaegeuk@kernel.org wrote:
>>> On 10/09, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>> On 2020/10/9 9:50, jaegeuk@kernel.org wrote:
>>>>> On 10/09, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>>>> On 2020/10/8 5:53, jaegeuk@kernel.org wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/07, Eric Biggers wrote:
>>>>>>>> [moved linux-fsdevel to Bcc]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:18:19AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> syzbot found the following issue on:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> HEAD commit: a804ab08 Add linux-next specific files for 20201006
>>>>>>>>> git tree: linux-next
>>>>>>>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17fe30bf900000
>>>>>>>>> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=26c1b4cc4a62ccb
>>>>>>>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ee250ac8137be41d7b13
>>>>>>>>> compiler: gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
>>>>>>>>> syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1336413b900000
>>>>>>>>> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=12f7392b900000
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The issue was bisected to:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> commit eede846af512572b1f30b34f9889d7df64c017d4
>>>>>>>>> Author: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
>>>>>>>>> Date: Fri Oct 2 21:17:35 2020 +0000
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> f2fs: f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail should not be failed
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jaegeuk, it looks like the loop you added in the above commit doesn't terminate
>>>>>>>> if the requested page is beyond the end of the device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, that will go infinite loop. Otherwise, it will trigger a panic during
>>>>>>> the device reboot. Let me think how to avoid that before trying to get the
>>>>>>> wrong lba access.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Delivering f2fs_get_sum_page()'s return value needs a lot of codes change, I think
>>>>>> we can just zeroing sum_page in error case, as we have already shutdown f2fs via
>>>>>> calling f2fs_stop_checkpoint(), then f2fs_cp_error() will stop all updates to
>>>>>> filesystem data including summary pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> That sounds like one solution tho, I'm afraid of getting another panic by
>>>>> wrong zero'ed summary page.
>>>>
>>>> What case do you mean? maybe I missed some corner cases?
>>>
>>> I sent v2 to fix syzbot issue, which fixes wrong use of
>>> f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail.
>>
>> I agreed to fix that case, however we may encounter deadloop in other
>> places where we call f2fs_get_meta_page_nofail()? like the case that
>> filesystem will always see EIO after we shutdown device via dmflakey?
>
> We may need another option to deal with this. At least, however, it's literally
> _nofail function which should guarantee no error, instead of hiding the error
> with zero'ed page.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Eric
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list
>>>>>>> Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel
>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>> .
>>>
> .
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