This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: get out of a repeat loop when getting a locked data page to the 6.5-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-get-out-of-a-repeat-loop-when-getting-a-locked-data-page.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d2d9bb3b6d2fbccb5b33d3a85a2830971625a4ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:47:00 -0800 Subject: f2fs: get out of a repeat loop when getting a locked data page From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d2d9bb3b6d2fbccb5b33d3a85a2830971625a4ea upstream. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216050 Somehow we're getting a page which has a different mapping. Let's avoid the infinite loop. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -1389,18 +1389,14 @@ struct page *f2fs_get_lock_data_page(str { struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; struct page *page; -repeat: + page = f2fs_get_read_data_page(inode, index, 0, for_write, NULL); if (IS_ERR(page)) return page; /* wait for read completion */ lock_page(page); - if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) { - f2fs_put_page(page, 1); - goto repeat; - } - if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page))) { + if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping || !PageUptodate(page))) { f2fs_put_page(page, 1); return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.5/f2fs-flush-inode-if-atomic-file-is-aborted.patch queue-6.5/f2fs-get-out-of-a-repeat-loop-when-getting-a-locked-data-page.patch queue-6.5/f2fs-avoid-false-alarm-of-circular-locking.patch