From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit dcaa6c31134c0f515600111c38ed7750003e1b9c upstream. In ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up(), set path[1].p_bh to NULL after it has been released, otherwise it may be released twice. An example of what triggers this is as follows: split2 map split1 |--------|-------|--------| ext4_ext_map_blocks ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents ext4_split_convert_extents // path->p_depth == 0 ext4_split_extent // 1. do split1 ext4_split_extent_at |ext4_ext_insert_extent | ext4_ext_create_new_leaf | ext4_ext_grow_indepth | le16_add_cpu(&neh->eh_depth, 1) | ext4_find_extent | // return -ENOMEM |// get error and try zeroout |path = ext4_find_extent | path->p_depth = 1 |ext4_ext_try_to_merge | ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up | path->p_depth = 0 | brelse(path[1].p_bh) ---> not set to NULL here |// zeroout success // 2. update path ext4_find_extent // 3. do split2 ext4_split_extent_at ext4_ext_insert_extent ext4_ext_create_new_leaf ext4_ext_grow_indepth le16_add_cpu(&neh->eh_depth, 1) ext4_find_extent path[0].p_bh = NULL; path->p_depth = 1 read_extent_tree_block ---> return err // path[1].p_bh is still the old value ext4_free_ext_path ext4_ext_drop_refs // path->p_depth == 1 brelse(path[1].p_bh) ---> brelse a buffer twice Finally got the following WARRNING when removing the buffer from lru: ============================================ VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 72 at fs/buffer.c:1241 __brelse+0x58/0x90 CPU: 2 PID: 72 Comm: kworker/u19:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-dirty #716 RIP: 0010:__brelse+0x58/0x90 Call Trace: <TASK> __find_get_block+0x6e7/0x810 bdev_getblk+0x2b/0x480 __ext4_get_inode_loc+0x48a/0x1240 ext4_get_inode_loc+0xb2/0x150 ext4_reserve_inode_write+0xb7/0x230 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x144/0x6a0 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x9c8/0x3230 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xf45/0x2dc0 ext4_map_blocks+0x724/0x1700 ext4_do_writepages+0x12d6/0x2a70 [...] ============================================ Fixes: ecb94f5fdf4b ("ext4: collapse a single extent tree block into the inode if possible") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-9-libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -1872,6 +1872,7 @@ static void ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up(han path[0].p_hdr->eh_max = cpu_to_le16(max_root); brelse(path[1].p_bh); + path[1].p_bh = NULL; ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, NULL, blk, 1, EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_METADATA | EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/ext4-fix-double-brelse-the-buffer-of-the-extents-path.patch queue-4.19/ext4-update-orig_path-in-ext4_find_extent.patch queue-4.19/ext4-aovid-use-after-free-in-ext4_ext_insert_extent.patch queue-4.19/ext4-fix-slab-use-after-free-in-ext4_split_extent_at.patch queue-4.19/ext4-propagate-errors-from-ext4_find_extent-in-ext4_insert_range.patch