This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message to the 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b9e252426dbafe91e01ee3e81076a1753a119fee 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 81aafb601df06..d2213220099d3 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -743,11 +743,10 @@ 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