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Pull erofs fixes from Gao Xiang:
- Properly handle errors when file-backed I/O fails
- Fix compilation issues on ARM platform (arm-linux-gnueabi)
- Fix parsing of encoded extents
- Minor cleanup
* tag 'erofs-for-6.15-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
erofs: remove duplicate code
erofs: fix encoded extents handling
erofs: add __packed annotation to union(__le16..)
erofs: set error to bio if file-backed IO fails
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"A few more miscellaneous ext4 bug fixes and cleanups including some
syzbot failures and fixing a stale file handing refeencing an inode
previously used as a regular file, but which has been deleted and
reused as an ea_inode would result in ext4 erroneously considering
this a case of fs corruption"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.15-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split
ext4: make block validity check resistent to sb bh corruption
ext4: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
Documentation: ext4: Add fields to ext4_super_block documentation
ext4: don't treat fhandle lookup of ea_inode as FS corruption
Remove duplicate code in function z_erofs_register_pcluster()
Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <liubo03@inspur.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410042048.3044-2-liubo03@inspur.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Pull memblock fix from Mike Rapoport:
"Fix build of memblock test.
Add missing stubs for mutex and free_reserved_area() to memblock
tests"
* tag 'fixes-2025-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
memblock tests: Fix mutex related build error
Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was
caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109
Write of size 251 at addr ffff888074572f14 by task syz-executor335/5847
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5847 Comm: syz-executor335 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller-00318-ga9cda7c0ffed #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
kasan_check_range+0x282/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
__asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106
ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109
add_dirent_to_buf+0x3d9/0x750 fs/ext4/namei.c:2154
make_indexed_dir+0xf98/0x1600 fs/ext4/namei.c:2351
ext4_add_entry+0x222a/0x25d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2455
ext4_add_nondir+0x8d/0x290 fs/ext4/namei.c:2796
ext4_symlink+0x920/0xb50 fs/ext4/namei.c:3431
vfs_symlink+0x137/0x2e0 fs/namei.c:4615
do_symlinkat+0x222/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4641
__do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4662 [inline]
__se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4660 [inline]
__x64_sys_symlink+0x7a/0x90 fs/namei.c:4660
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
The following loop is located right above 'if' statement.
for (i = count-1; i >= 0; i--) {
/* is more than half of this entry in 2nd half of the block? */
if (size + map[i].size/2 > blocksize/2)
break;
size += map[i].size;
move++;
}
'i' in this case could go down to -1, in which case sum of active entries
wouldn't exceed half the block size, but previous behaviour would also do
split in half if sum would exceed at the very last block, which in case of
having too many long name files in a single block could lead to
out-of-bounds access and following use-after-free.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5872331b3d91 ("ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()")
Signed-off-by: Artem Sadovnikov <a.sadovnikov@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250404082804.2567-3-a.sadovnikov@ispras.ru
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
- The MSB 32 bits of `z_fragmentoff` are available only in extent
records of size >= 8B.
- Use round_down() to calculate `lstart` as well as increase `pos`
correspondingly for extent records of size == 8B.
Fixes: 1d191b4ca51d ("erofs: implement encoded extent metadata")
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408114448.4040220-2-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Hide get_vm_area() from MMUless builds
The function get_vm_area() is not defined when CONFIG_MMU is not
defined. Hide that function within #ifdef CONFIG_MMU.
- Fix output of synthetic events when they have dynamic strings
The print fmt of the synthetic event's format file use to have "%.*s"
for dynamic size strings even though the user space exported
arguments had only __get_str() macro that provided just a nul
terminated string. This was fixed so that user space could parse this
properly.
But the reason that it had "%.*s" was because internally it provided
the maximum size of the string as one of the arguments. The fix that
replaced "%.*s" with "%s" caused the trace output (when the kernel
reads the event) to write "(efault)" as it would now read the length
of the string as "%s".
As the string provided is always nul terminated, there's no reason
for the internal code to use "%.*s" anyway. Just remove the length
argument to match the "%s" that is now in the format.
- Fix the ftrace subops hash logic of the manager ops hash
The function_graph uses the ftrace subops code. The subops code is a
way to have a single ftrace_ops registered with ftrace to determine
what functions will call the ftrace_ops callback. More than one user
of function graph can register a ftrace_ops with it. The function
graph infrastructure will then add this ftrace_ops as a subops with
the main ftrace_ops it registers with ftrace. This is because the
functions will always call the function graph callback which in turn
calls the subops ftrace_ops callbacks.
The main ftrace_ops must add a callback to all the functions that the
subops want a callback from. When a subops is registered, it will
update the main ftrace_ops hash to include the functions it wants.
This is the logic that was broken.
The ftrace_ops hash has a "filter_hash" and a "notrace_hash" where
all the functions in the filter_hash but not in the notrace_hash are
attached by ftrace. The original logic would have the main ftrace_ops
filter_hash be a union of all the subops filter_hashes and the main
notrace_hash would be a intersect of all the subops filter hashes.
But this was incorrect because the notrace hash depends on the
filter_hash it is associated to and not the union of all
filter_hashes.
Instead, when a subops is added, just include all the functions of
the subops hash that are in its filter_hash but not in its
notrace_hash. The main subops hash should not use its notrace hash,
unless all of its subops hashes have an empty filter_hash (which
means to attach to all functions), and then, and only then, the main
ftrace_ops notrace hash can be the intersect of all the subops
hashes.
This not only fixes the bug, but also simplifies the code.
- Add a selftest to better test the subops filtering
Add a selftest that would catch the bug fixed by the above change.
- Fix extra newline printed in function tracing with retval
The function parameter code changed the output logic slightly and
called print_graph_retval() and also printed a newline. The
print_graph_retval() also prints a newline which caused blank lines
to be printed in the function graph tracer when retval was added.
This caused one of the selftests to fail if retvals were enabled.
Instead remove the new line output from print_graph_retval() and have
the callers always print the new line so that it doesn't have to do
special logic if it calls print_graph_retval() or not.
- Fix out-of-bound memory access in the runtime verifier
When rv_is_container_monitor() is called on the last entry on the
link list it references the next entry, which is the list head and
causes an out-of-bound memory access.
* tag 'trace-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rv: Fix out-of-bound memory access in rv_is_container_monitor()
ftrace: Do not have print_graph_retval() add a newline
tracing/selftest: Add test to better test subops filtering of function graph
ftrace: Fix accounting of subop hashes
ftrace: Properly merge notrace hashes
tracing: Do not add length to print format in synthetic events
tracing: Hide get_vm_area() from MMUless builds
Fix mutex and free_reserved_area() related build errors which have
been introduced by commit 74e2498ccf7b ("mm/memblock: Add reserved
memory release function").
Fixes: 74e2498ccf7b ("mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function")
Reported-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250405023018.g2ae52nrz2757b3n@master/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174399023133.47537.7375975856054461445.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Block validity checks need to be skipped in case they are called
for journal blocks since they are part of system's protected
zone.
Currently, this is done by checking inode->ino against
sbi->s_es->s_journal_inum, which is a direct read from the ext4 sb
buffer head. If someone modifies this underneath us then the
s_journal_inum field might get corrupted. To prevent against this,
change the check to directly compare the inode with journal->j_inode.
**Slight change in behavior**: During journal init path,
check_block_validity etc might be called for journal inode when
sbi->s_journal is not set yet. In this case we now proceed with
ext4_inode_block_valid() instead of returning early. Since systems zones
have not been set yet, it is okay to proceed so we can perform basic
checks on the blocks.
Suggested-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c06bc9ebfcd6ccfed84a36e79147bf45ff5adc1.1743142920.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
I'm unsure why they aren't 2 bytes in size only in arm-linux-gnueabi.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202504051202.DS7QIknJ-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 61ba89b57905 ("erofs: add 48-bit block addressing on-disk support")
Fixes: efb2aef569b3 ("erofs: add encoded extent on-disk definition")
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408114448.4040220-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Followup fixes for resilient spinlock (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi):
- Make res_spin_lock test less verbose, since it was spamming BPF
CI on failure, and make the check for AA deadlock stronger
- Fix rebasing mistake and use architecture provided
res_smp_cond_load_acquire
- Convert BPF maps (queue_stack and ringbuf) to resilient spinlock
to address long standing syzbot reports
- Make sure that classic BPF load instruction from SKF_[NET|LL]_OFF
offsets works when skb is fragmeneted (Willem de Bruijn)
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
bpf: Convert ringbuf map to rqspinlock
bpf: Convert queue_stack map to rqspinlock
bpf: Use architecture provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire
selftests/bpf: Make res_spin_lock AA test condition stronger
selftests/net: test sk_filter support for SKF_NET_OFF on frags
bpf: support SKF_NET_OFF and SKF_LL_OFF on skb frags
selftests/bpf: Make res_spin_lock test less verbose
When rv_is_container_monitor() is called on the last monitor in
rv_monitors_list, KASAN yells:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in rv_is_container_monitor+0x101/0x110
Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff97c7c798 by task setup/221
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
rv_monitors_list+0x18/0x40
This is due to list_next_entry() is called on the last entry in the list.
It wraps around to the first list_head, and the first list_head is not
embedded in struct rv_monitor_def.
Fix it by checking if the monitor is last in the list.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Fixes: cb85c660fcd4 ("rv: Add option for nested monitors and include sched")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e85b5eeb7228bfc23b8d7d4ab5411472c54ae91b.1744355018.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end was introduced in GCC-14, and we are
getting ready to enable it, globally.
Use the `DEFINE_RAW_FLEX()` helper for an on-stack definition of
a flexible structure where the size of the flexible-array member
is known at compile-time, and refactor the rest of the code,
accordingly.
So, with these changes, fix the following warning:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3041:40: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/Z-SF97N3AxcIMlSi@kspp
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If a file-backed IO fails before submitting the bio to the lower
filesystem, an error is returned, but the bio->bi_status is not
marked as an error. However, the error information should be passed
to the end_io handler. Otherwise, the IO request will be treated as
successful.
Fixes: 283213718f5d ("erofs: support compressed inodes for fileio")
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408122351.2104507-1-shengyong1@xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Pull pwm fixes from Uwe Kleine-König:
"A set of fixes for pwm core and various drivers
The first three patches handle clk_get_rate() returning 0 (which might
happen for example if the CCF is disabled). The first of these was
found because this triggered a warning with clang, the two others by
looking for similar issues in other drivers.
The remaining three fixes address issues in the new waveform pwm API.
Now that I worked on this a bit more, the finer details and corner
cases are better understood and the code is fixed accordingly"
* tag 'pwm/for-6.15-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux:
pwm: axi-pwmgen: Let .round_waveform_tohw() signal when request was rounded up
pwm: stm32: Search an appropriate duty_cycle if period cannot be modified
pwm: Let pwm_set_waveform() succeed even if lowlevel driver rounded up
pwm: fsl-ftm: Handle clk_get_rate() returning 0
pwm: rcar: Improve register calculation
pwm: mediatek: Prevent divide-by-zero in pwm_mediatek_config()
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