This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioread_nolock to the 6.1-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-silence-the-warning-when-evicting-inode-with-dioread_nolock.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bc12ac98ea2e1b70adc6478c8b473a0003b659d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:26:46 +0800 Subject: ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioread_nolock From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit bc12ac98ea2e1b70adc6478c8b473a0003b659d3 upstream. When evicting an inode with default dioread_nolock, it could be raced by the unwritten extents converting kworker after writeback some new allocated dirty blocks. It convert unwritten extents to written, the extents could be merged to upper level and free extent blocks, so it could mark the inode dirty again even this inode has been marked I_FREEING. But the inode->i_io_list check and warning in ext4_evict_inode() missing this corner case. Fortunately, ext4_evict_inode() will wait all extents converting finished before this check, so it will not lead to inode use-after-free problem, every thing is OK besides this warning. The WARN_ON_ONCE was originally designed for finding inode use-after-free issues in advance, but if we add current dioread_nolock case in, it will become not quite useful, so fix this warning by just remove this check. ====== WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1092 at fs/ext4/inode.c:227 ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60 ... RIP: 0010:ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60 ... Call Trace: <TASK> evict+0x11c/0x2b0 iput+0x236/0x3a0 do_unlinkat+0x1b4/0x490 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0x4c/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7fa933c1115b ====== rm kworker ext4_end_io_end() vfs_unlink() ext4_unlink() ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec() ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() ext4_map_blocks() ext4_ext_map_blocks() ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up() __mark_inode_dirty() check !I_FREEING locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() iput() iput_final() evict() ext4_evict_inode() truncate_inode_pages_final() //wait release io_end inode_io_list_move_locked() ext4_release_io_end() trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ceff86fddae8 ("ext4: Avoid freeing inodes on dirty list") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629112647.4141034-1-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -222,13 +222,13 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inod /* * For inodes with journalled data, transaction commit could have - * dirtied the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING - * flag but we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists. + * dirtied the inode. And for inodes with dioread_nolock, unwritten + * extents converting worker could merge extents and also have dirtied + * the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING flag but + * we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists. */ - if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list)) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(!ext4_should_journal_data(inode)); + if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list)) inode_io_list_del(inode); - } /* * Protect us against freezing - iput() caller didn't have to have any Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/ext4-check-and-assert-if-marking-an-no_delete-evicting-inode-dirty.patch queue-6.1/ext4-silence-the-warning-when-evicting-inode-with-dioread_nolock.patch