This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: zero the buffer before marking it dirty in btrfs_redirty_list_add to the 6.3-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: btrfs-zero-the-buffer-before-marking-it-dirty-in-btrfs_redirty_list_add.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c83b56d1dd87cf67492bb770c26d6f87aee70ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 07:58:37 -0700 Subject: btrfs: zero the buffer before marking it dirty in btrfs_redirty_list_add From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit c83b56d1dd87cf67492bb770c26d6f87aee70ed6 upstream. btrfs_redirty_list_add zeroes the buffer data and sets the EXTENT_BUFFER_NO_CHECK to make sure writeback is fine with a bogus header. But it does that after already marking the buffer dirty, which means that writeback could already be looking at the buffer. Switch the order of operations around so that the buffer is only marked dirty when we're ready to write it. Fixes: d3575156f662 ("btrfs: zoned: redirty released extent buffers") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.15+ Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/zoned.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/zoned.c @@ -1610,11 +1610,11 @@ void btrfs_redirty_list_add(struct btrfs !list_empty(&eb->release_list)) return; + memzero_extent_buffer(eb, 0, eb->len); + set_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_NO_CHECK, &eb->bflags); set_extent_buffer_dirty(eb); set_extent_bits_nowait(&trans->dirty_pages, eb->start, eb->start + eb->len - 1, EXTENT_DIRTY); - memzero_extent_buffer(eb, 0, eb->len); - set_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_NO_CHECK, &eb->bflags); spin_lock(&trans->releasing_ebs_lock); list_add_tail(&eb->release_list, &trans->releasing_ebs); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-6.3/btrfs-zero-the-buffer-before-marking-it-dirty-in-btrfs_redirty_list_add.patch