[lvc-project] [PATCH v2] ocfs2: always run deallocs on copy-on-write completion

Dmitry Antipov dmantipov at yandex.ru
Tue Jul 21 13:28:40 MSK 2026


Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak
caused by doing 'copy_file_range()' within the same filesystem:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812192c980 (size 32):
  comm "syz.0.49", pid 12095, jiffies 4294964143
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    c0 c5 92 21 81 88 ff ff 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00  ...!............
  backtrace (crc 7068d63f):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    ocfs2_find_per_slot_free_list fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6618 [inline]
    ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc+0x155/0x4b0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6786
    ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6819 [inline]
    ocfs2_unlink_path+0x286/0x450 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2613
    ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2779 [inline]
    __ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x1f6f/0x2da0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2985
    ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x283/0xe00 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3237
    ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent+0xf56/0x1a20 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3825
    ocfs2_split_extent+0x15f4/0x2940 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:5138
    ocfs2_clear_ext_refcount+0x2f6/0x550 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3098
    ocfs2_replace_clusters fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3131 [inline]
    ocfs2_make_clusters_writable fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3255 [inline]
    ocfs2_replace_cow+0x991/0x1660 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3349
    ocfs2_refcount_cow_hunk fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3427 [inline]
    ocfs2_refcount_cow+0x5e1/0x9f0 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3470
    ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write fs/ocfs2/file.c:2340 [inline]
    ocfs2_file_write_iter+0xbda/0x1880 fs/ocfs2/file.c:2451
    iter_file_splice_write+0x890/0xf60 fs/splice.c:743
    do_splice_from fs/splice.c:944 [inline]
    direct_splice_actor+0x232/0x480 fs/splice.c:1167
    splice_direct_to_actor+0x4b4/0xb60 fs/splice.c:1111
    do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1210 [inline]
    do_splice_direct+0x10f/0x1c0 fs/splice.c:1236
    do_sendfile+0x430/0xbf0 fs/read_write.c:1388

unreferenced object 0xffff88812192c5c0 (size 32):
  comm "syz.0.49", pid 12095, jiffies 4294964143
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    29 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  )p..............
  backtrace (crc afec850f):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline]
    ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc+0x25c/0x4b0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6793
    ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6819 [inline]
    ocfs2_unlink_path+0x286/0x450 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2613
    ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2779 [inline]
    __ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x1f6f/0x2da0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2985
    ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x283/0xe00 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3237
    ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent+0xf56/0x1a20 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3825
    ocfs2_split_extent+0x15f4/0x2940 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:5138
    ocfs2_clear_ext_refcount+0x2f6/0x550 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3098
    ocfs2_replace_clusters fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3131 [inline]
    ocfs2_make_clusters_writable fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3255 [inline]
    ocfs2_replace_cow+0x991/0x1660 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3349
    ocfs2_refcount_cow_hunk fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3427 [inline]
    ocfs2_refcount_cow+0x5e1/0x9f0 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3470
    ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write fs/ocfs2/file.c:2340 [inline]
    ocfs2_file_write_iter+0xbda/0x1880 fs/ocfs2/file.c:2451
    iter_file_splice_write+0x890/0xf60 fs/splice.c:743
    do_splice_from fs/splice.c:944 [inline]
    direct_splice_actor+0x232/0x480 fs/splice.c:1167
    splice_direct_to_actor+0x4b4/0xb60 fs/splice.c:1111
    do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1210 [inline]
    do_splice_direct+0x10f/0x1c0 fs/splice.c:1236
    do_sendfile+0x430/0xbf0 fs/read_write.c:1388

This happens when 'ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc()' called from
'ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free()' uses the suballocator to
schedule extent removal, so 'ocfs2_run_deallocs()' should
be run unconditionally to complete the removal with
'ocfs2_free_cached_blocks()'. An extra semi-automated static
analysis [1] suspects that the same scenario looks possible in
'ocfs2_attach_refcount_tree()' and 'ocfs2_reflink_remap_blocks()'
as well, but, since 'ocfs2_run_deallocs()' is a safe no-op for
an empty dealloc context, 'ocfs2_create_reflink_node()' and
'ocfs2_reflink_xattrs()' may be adjusted in the same way too,
thus keeping the code pattern consistent.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ocfs2-devel/f1d7e266-4b44-41b9-98c0-5b3868a8d9c3@yandex.ru

Fixes: 6f70fa519976 ("ocfs2: Add CoW support.")
Suggested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov at yandex.ru>
---
 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c | 20 ++++++++------------
 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c        |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
index 7323bde70caa..b36f6143a0f6 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
@@ -3360,10 +3360,9 @@ static int ocfs2_replace_cow(struct ocfs2_cow_context *context)
 		cow_start += num_clusters;
 	}
 
-	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&context->dealloc)) {
+	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&context->dealloc))
 		ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
-		ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &context->dealloc);
-	}
+	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &context->dealloc);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -3846,10 +3845,9 @@ static int ocfs2_attach_refcount_tree(struct inode *inode,
 	ocfs2_unlock_refcount_tree(osb, ref_tree, 1);
 	brelse(ref_root_bh);
 
-	if (!ret && ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc)) {
+	if (!ret && ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc))
 		ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
-		ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
-	}
+	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
 out:
 	/*
 	 * Empty the extent map so that we may get the right extent
@@ -4135,10 +4133,9 @@ static int ocfs2_create_reflink_node(struct inode *s_inode,
 	ocfs2_unlock_refcount_tree(osb, ref_tree, 1);
 	brelse(ref_root_bh);
 out:
-	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc)) {
+	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc))
 		ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
-		ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
-	}
+	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -4691,10 +4688,9 @@ loff_t ocfs2_reflink_remap_blocks(struct inode *s_inode,
 	}
 
 out:
-	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc)) {
+	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc))
 		ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
-		ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
-	}
+	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index fcddd3c13acd..412e647334ad 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -7235,10 +7235,9 @@ int ocfs2_reflink_xattrs(struct inode *old_inode,
 				   ref_tree, 1);
 	brelse(ref_root_bh);
 
-	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc)) {
+	if (ocfs2_dealloc_has_cluster(&dealloc))
 		ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(OCFS2_SB(old_inode->i_sb), 1);
-		ocfs2_run_deallocs(OCFS2_SB(old_inode->i_sb), &dealloc);
-	}
+	ocfs2_run_deallocs(OCFS2_SB(old_inode->i_sb), &dealloc);
 
 out:
 	return ret;
-- 
2.55.0




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