syzbot found a null-ptr-deref by KASAN: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in buffer_busy fs/buffer.c:2856 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in drop_buffers+0x61/0x2f0 fs/buffer.c:2868 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000060 by task syz-executor.5/24786 CPU: 0 PID: 24786 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09589-g55be6084c8e0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1e3/0x2cb lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_report+0xf1/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:436 kasan_report+0xfb/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasan_check_range+0x2a7/0x2e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline] atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline] buffer_busy fs/buffer.c:2856 [inline] drop_buffers+0x61/0x2f0 fs/buffer.c:2868 try_to_free_buffers+0x2b1/0x640 fs/buffer.c:2898 [...] We use folio_has_private() to decide whether call filemap_release_folio(), which may call try_to_free_buffers() then. folio_has_private() return true for both PG_private and PG_private_2. We should only call try_to_free_buffers() for case PG_private. So we should recheck PG_private in try_to_free_buffers(). Reported-by: syzbot+fbdb4ec578ebdcfb9ed2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 266cf658efcf ("FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management") Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index d9c6d1fbb6dd..c302b578e437 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2822,6 +2822,9 @@ bool try_to_free_buffers(struct folio *folio) if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) return false; + if (!folio_test_private(folio)) + return false; + if (mapping == NULL) { /* can this still happen? */ ret = drop_buffers(folio, &buffers_to_free); goto out; -- 2.25.1