This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix accessing uninit percpu counter variable with fast_commit to the 5.12-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: ext4-fix-accessing-uninit-percpu-counter-variable-with-fast_commit.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b45f189a19b38e01676628db79cd3eeb1333516e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:13:44 +0530 Subject: ext4: fix accessing uninit percpu counter variable with fast_commit From: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b45f189a19b38e01676628db79cd3eeb1333516e upstream. When running generic/527 with fast_commit configuration, the following issue is seen on Power. With fast_commit, during ext4_fc_replay() (which can be called from ext4_fill_super()), if inode eviction happens then it can access an uninitialized percpu counter variable. This patch adds the check before accessing the counters in ext4_free_inode() path. [ 321.165371] run fstests generic/527 at 2021-04-29 08:38:43 [ 323.027786] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: block_validity. Quota mode: none. [ 323.618772] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x1fbd80000 [ 323.619767] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000bae78c cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000010706ef0] pc: c000000000bae78c: percpu_counter_add_batch+0x3c/0x100 lr: c0000000006d0bb0: ext4_free_inode+0x780/0xb90 pid = 5593, comm = mount ext4_free_inode+0x780/0xb90 ext4_evict_inode+0xa8c/0xc60 evict+0xfc/0x1e0 ext4_fc_replay+0xc50/0x20f0 do_one_pass+0xfe0/0x1350 jbd2_journal_recover+0x184/0x2e0 jbd2_journal_load+0x1c0/0x4a0 ext4_fill_super+0x2458/0x4200 mount_bdev+0x1dc/0x290 ext4_mount+0x28/0x40 legacy_get_tree+0x4c/0xa0 vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x120 path_mount+0xcf8/0xd70 do_mount+0x80/0xd0 sys_mount+0x3fc/0x490 system_call_exception+0x384/0x3d0 system_call_common+0xec/0x278 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6cceb9a75c54bef8fa9696c1b08c8df5ff6169e2.1619692410.git.riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -322,14 +322,16 @@ void ext4_free_inode(handle_t *handle, s if (is_directory) { count = ext4_used_dirs_count(sb, gdp) - 1; ext4_used_dirs_set(sb, gdp, count); - percpu_counter_dec(&sbi->s_dirs_counter); + if (percpu_counter_initialized(&sbi->s_dirs_counter)) + percpu_counter_dec(&sbi->s_dirs_counter); } ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp, bitmap_bh, EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) / 8); ext4_group_desc_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp); ext4_unlock_group(sb, block_group); - percpu_counter_inc(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter); + if (percpu_counter_initialized(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter)) + percpu_counter_inc(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter); if (sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex) { struct flex_groups *fg; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.12/ext4-fix-accessing-uninit-percpu-counter-variable-with-fast_commit.patch