This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message
to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-ratelimit-handle_bad_sector-message.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6f9169fd179b4ce6b4e1f8535674ca26a1e0842b
Author: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 8 22:37:23 2020 +0900
block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message
[ Upstream commit f4ac712e4fe009635344b9af5d890fe25fcc8c0d ]
syzbot is reporting unkillable task [1], for the caller is failing to
handle a corrupted filesystem image which attempts to access beyond
the end of the device. While we need to fix the caller, flooding the
console with handle_bad_sector() message is unlikely useful.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f1f49fb971d7a3e01bd8ab8cff2ff4572ccf3092
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 619a3dcd3f5e7..8d6435b731186 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -798,11 +798,10 @@ static void handle_bad_sector(struct bio *bio, sector_t maxsector)
{
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
- printk(KERN_INFO "attempt to access beyond end of device\n");
- printk(KERN_INFO "%s: rw=%d, want=%Lu, limit=%Lu\n",
- bio_devname(bio, b), bio->bi_opf,
- (unsigned long long)bio_end_sector(bio),
- (long long)maxsector);
+ pr_info_ratelimited("attempt to access beyond end of device\n"
+ "%s: rw=%d, want=%llu, limit=%llu\n",
+ bio_devname(bio, b), bio->bi_opf,
+ bio_end_sector(bio), maxsector);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
