From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs/170 on a filesystem with su=128k,sw=4 produces this splat: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 1 PID: 4022907 Comm: dd Tainted: G W 6.3.0-xfsx #2 6ebeeffbe9577d32 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20171121_152543-x86-ol7-bu RIP: 0010:xfs_perag_rele+0x10/0x70 [xfs] RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e43858 EFLAGS: 00010217 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000100 RDX: ffffffffa054e717 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff888194eea000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000037 R10: ffff888100ac1cb0 R11: 0000000000000018 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffc90001e43a38 R14: ffff888194eea000 R15: ffff888194eea000 FS: 00007f93d1a0e740(0000) GS:ffff88843fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000018a34f000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 Call Trace: <TASK> xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x1a7/0x5d0 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] xfs_bmapi_allocate+0xee/0x470 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] xfs_bmapi_write+0x539/0x9e0 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] xfs_iomap_write_direct+0x1bb/0x2b0 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin+0x51c/0x710 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] iomap_iter+0x132/0x2f0 __iomap_dio_rw+0x2f8/0x840 iomap_dio_rw+0xe/0x30 xfs_file_dio_write_aligned+0xad/0x180 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] xfs_file_write_iter+0xfb/0x190 [xfs f85291d6841cbb3dc740083f1f331c0327394518] vfs_write+0x2eb/0x410 ksys_write+0x65/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x80 This crash occurs under the "out_low_space" label. We grabbed a perag reference, passed it via args->pag into xfs_bmap_btalloc_at_eof, and afterwards args->pag is NULL. Fix the second function not to clobber args->pag if the caller had passed one in. Fixes: 85843327094f ("xfs: factor xfs_bmap_btalloc()") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c index b512de0540d5..cd8870a16fd1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c @@ -3494,8 +3494,10 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc_at_eof( if (!caller_pag) args->pag = xfs_perag_get(mp, XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, ap->blkno)); error = xfs_alloc_vextent_exact_bno(args, ap->blkno); - if (!caller_pag) + if (!caller_pag) { xfs_perag_put(args->pag); + args->pag = NULL; + } if (error) return error; @@ -3505,7 +3507,6 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc_at_eof( * Exact allocation failed. Reset to try an aligned allocation * according to the original allocation specification. */ - args->pag = NULL; args->alignment = stripe_align; args->minlen = nextminlen; args->minalignslop = 0;