This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: fix to abort atomic write only during do_exist() 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: f2fs-fix-to-abort-atomic-write-only-during-do_exist.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. commit 579dc9f31ef5d1a37ad70421267438f10e217dd6 Author: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 9 11:44:51 2023 +0800 f2fs: fix to abort atomic write only during do_exist() [ Upstream commit ae267fc1cfe9f941afcb90dc963ee6448dae73cf ] Commit 7a10f0177e11 ("f2fs: don't give partially written atomic data from process crash") attempted to drop atomic write data after process crash, however, f2fs_abort_atomic_write() may be called from noncrash case, fix it by adding missed PF_EXITING check condition f2fs_file_flush(). - application crashs - do_exit - exit_signals -- sets PF_EXITING - exit_files - put_files_struct - close_files - filp_close - flush (f2fs_file_flush) - check atomic_write_task && PF_EXITING - f2fs_abort_atomic_write Fixes: 7a10f0177e11 ("f2fs: don't give partially written atomic data from process crash") Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c index 88eecd7149cd5..8a576c004b72a 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c @@ -1879,7 +1879,8 @@ static int f2fs_file_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id) * until all the writers close its file. Since this should be done * before dropping file lock, it needs to do in ->flush. */ - if (F2FS_I(inode)->atomic_write_task == current) + if (F2FS_I(inode)->atomic_write_task == current && + (current->flags & PF_EXITING)) f2fs_abort_atomic_write(inode, true); return 0; }