From f08c80af3c9a9849cd178b4843b7c01d103506a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:08:00 -0400 Subject: netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling [ Upstream commit a3de58b12ce074ec05b8741fa28d62ccb1070468 ] If all the subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, the subrequest collector doesn't update the stream->transferred value and it retains its initial LONG_MAX value. Unfortunately, if all active streams fail, then we take the smallest value of { LONG_MAX, LONG_MAX, ... } as the value to set in wreq->transferred - which is then returned from ->write_iter(). LONG_MAX was chosen as the initial value so that all the streams can be quickly assessed by taking the smallest value of all stream->transferred - but this only works if we've set any of them. Fix this by adding a flag to indicate whether the value in stream->transferred is valid and checking that when we integrate the values. stream->transferred can then be initialised to zero. This was found by running the generic/750 xfstest against cifs with cache=none. It splices data to the target file. Once (if) it has used up all the available scratch space, the writes start failing with ENOSPC. This causes ->write_iter() to fail. However, it was returning wreq->transferred, i.e. LONG_MAX, rather than an error (because it thought the amount transferred was non-zero) and iter_file_splice_write() would then try to clean up that amount of pipe bufferage - leading to an oops when it overran. The kernel log showed: CIFS: VFS: Send error in write = -28 followed by: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 with: RIP: 0010:iter_file_splice_write+0x3a4/0x520 do_splice+0x197/0x4e0 or: RIP: 0010:pipe_buf_release (include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:282) iter_file_splice_write (fs/splice.c:755) Also put a warning check into splice to announce if ->write_iter() returned that it had written more than it was asked to. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Reported-by: Xiaoli Feng Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220445 Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/915443.1755207950@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Steve French cc: Shyam Prasad N cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner [ Dropped read_collect.c hunk ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/netfs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/netfs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h index 474481ee8b7c..83d313718cd5 100644 --- a/include/linux/netfs.h +++ b/include/linux/netfs.h @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ struct netfs_io_stream { bool active; /* T if stream is active */ bool need_retry; /* T if this stream needs retrying */ bool failed; /* T if this stream failed */ + bool transferred_valid; /* T is ->transferred is valid */ }; /* -- cgit v1.2.3