The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-remove-unreasonable-unlock-in-ocfs2_read_blocks.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-remove-unreasonable-unlock-in-ocfs2_read_blocks.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:36:35 +0800 Patch series "Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks", v5. This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming Zhao when reviewing above fix. This patch (of 2): There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902023636.1843422-1-joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902023636.1843422-2-joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: cf76c78595ca ("ocfs2: don't put and assigning null to bh allocated outside") Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+ab134185af9ef88dfed5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ab134185af9ef88dfed5 Tested-by: syzbot+ab134185af9ef88dfed5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.20+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c~ocfs2-remove-unreasonable-unlock-in-ocfs2_read_blocks +++ a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c @@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_cachi if (bhs[i] == NULL) { bhs[i] = sb_getblk(sb, block++); if (bhs[i] == NULL) { - ocfs2_metadata_cache_io_unlock(ci); status = -ENOMEM; mlog_errno(status); /* Don't forget to put previous bh! */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-remove-unreasonable-unlock-in-ocfs2_read_blocks.patch ocfs2-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate.patch