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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nilfs2: prevent general protection fault in" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 782e53d0c14420858dbf0f8f797973c150d3b6d7
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2023062317-gradient-unopened-2f06@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 782e53d0c14420858dbf0f8f797973c150d3b6d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:14:56 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: prevent general protection fault in
nilfs_clear_dirty_page()

In a syzbot stress test that deliberately causes file system errors on nilfs2 with a corrupted disk image, it has been reported that nilfs_clear_dirty_page() called from nilfs_clear_dirty_pages() can cause a

general protection fault.

In nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(), when looking up dirty pages from the page cache and calling nilfs_clear_dirty_page() for each dirty page/folio retrieved, the back reference from the argument page to "mapping" may have been changed to NULL (and possibly others). It is necessary to check this after locking the page/folio.

So, fix this issue by not calling nilfs_clear_dirty_page() on a page/folio after locking it in nilfs_clear_dirty_pages() if the back reference "mapping" from the page/folio is different from the "mapping" that held the page/folio just before.

fs/nilfs2/page.c +9 -1
index 5cf30827f244..b4e54d079b7d 100644
@@ -370,7 +370,15 @@ void nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, bool silent)
 			struct folio *folio = fbatch.folios[i];
 
 			folio_lock(folio);
-			nilfs_clear_dirty_page(&folio->page, silent);
+
+			/*
+			 * This folio may have been removed from the address
+			 * space by truncation or invalidation when the lock
+			 * was acquired.  Skip processing in that case.
+			 */
+			if (likely(folio->mapping == mapping))
+				nilfs_clear_dirty_page(&folio->page, silent);
+
 			folio_unlock(folio);
 		}
 		folio_batch_release(&fbatch);