At the beginning of the function, folio queues with marks3==0 are skipped, but after that, the `marks3` field is ignored. If one such queue is found, `slot` is set to 64 (because `__ffs(0)==64`), leading to a buffer overflow in the folioq_folio() call. The resulting crash may look like this: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 2909 Comm: kworker/u262:1 Not tainted 6.13.1-cm4all2-vm #415 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_read_termination_worker RIP: 0010:netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache+0x15a/0x3f0 Code: 48 85 c0 48 89 44 24 08 0f 84 24 01 00 00 48 8b 80 40 01 00 00 48 8b 7c 24 08 f3 48 0f bc c0 89 44 24 18 89 c0 48 8b 74 c7 08 <48> 8b 06 48 c7 04 24 00 10 00 00 a8 40 74 10 0f b6 4e 40 b8 00 10 RSP: 0018:ffffbbc440effe18 EFLAGS: 00010203 RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: ffff96f8fc034000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff96f8fc036400 RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: ffff96f9132bb400 R09: 0000000000001000 R10: ffff96f8c1263c80 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000001000 R13: ffff96f8fb75ade8 R14: fffffaaf5ca90000 R15: ffff96f8fb75ad00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9703cf0c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010c9ca003 CR4: 00000000001706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x1f/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x158/0x450 ? search_extable+0x22/0x30 ? netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache+0x15a/0x3f0 ? search_module_extables+0xe/0x40 ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x120 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache+0x15a/0x3f0 ? netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache+0xf6/0x3f0 netfs_read_termination_worker+0x1f/0x60 process_one_work+0x138/0x2d0 worker_thread+0x2a5/0x3b0 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xba/0xe0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx> --- Note this patch doesn't apply to v6.14 as it was obsoleted by commit e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item"). --- fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2.c b/fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2.c index 54d5004fec18..e72f5e674834 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2.c +++ b/fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2.c @@ -181,16 +181,17 @@ void netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) break; folioq_unmark3(folioq, slot); - if (!folioq->marks3) { + while (!folioq->marks3) { folioq = folioq->next; if (!folioq) - break; + goto end_of_queue; } slot = __ffs(folioq->marks3); folio = folioq_folio(folioq, slot); } +end_of_queue: netfs_issue_write(wreq, &wreq->io_streams[1]); smp_wmb(); /* Write lists before ALL_QUEUED. */ set_bit(NETFS_RREQ_ALL_QUEUED, &wreq->flags); -- 2.47.2