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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: limit recovery filename logging to stored length" 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 01027b2fcb74dade59fb833b51023f6593b6a9a2
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026090932-award-goliath-372a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 01027b2fcb74dade59fb833b51023f6593b6a9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenjie Qi <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:23:30 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: limit recovery filename logging to stored length

F2FS stores recovery filenames as a length plus a fixed-size i_name buffer. The buffer is not NUL-terminated, but recover_inode() and recover_dentry() print it with %s.

For a 255-byte filename, recovery logging can read past i_name into the following raw inode fields.

Print the name with a precision bounded by i_namelen and F2FS_NAME_LEN.

Fixes f356fe0cba0e ("f2fs: add debug msgs in the recovery routine")
Cc [email protected]
Assisted-by Codex:gpt-5.5
Signed-off-by Wenjie Qi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
fs/f2fs/recovery.c +27 -14
index 89af8407b667..3fecfdbd5958 100644
@@ -158,6 +158,22 @@ static int init_recovered_filename(const struct inode *dir,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static const char *recover_printable_name(struct inode *inode,
+					  struct f2fs_inode *raw,
+					  int *name_len)
+{
+	static const char encrypted_name[] = "<encrypted>";
+
+	if (file_enc_name(inode)) {
+		*name_len = sizeof(encrypted_name) - 1;
+		return encrypted_name;
+	}
+
+	*name_len = min_t(unsigned int, le32_to_cpu(raw->i_namelen),
+			  F2FS_NAME_LEN);
+	return raw->i_name;
+}
+
 static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct folio *ifolio,
 						struct list_head *dir_list)
 {

@@ -170,7 +186,8 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct folio *ifolio,
 	struct inode *dir, *einode;
 	struct fsync_inode_entry *entry;
 	int err = 0;
-	char *name;
+	const char *name;
+	int name_len;
 
 	entry = get_fsync_inode(dir_list, pino);
 	if (!entry) {

@@ -229,12 +246,9 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct folio *ifolio,
 out_put:
 	f2fs_folio_put(folio, false);
 out:
-	if (file_enc_name(inode))
-		name = "<encrypted>";
-	else
-		name = raw_inode->i_name;
-	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %s, dir = %llu, err = %d",
-		    __func__, ino_of_node(ifolio), name,
+	name = recover_printable_name(inode, raw_inode, &name_len);
+	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %.*s, dir = %llu, err = %d",
+		    __func__, ino_of_node(ifolio), name_len, name,
 		    IS_ERR(dir) ? 0 : dir->i_ino, err);
 	return err;
 }

@@ -282,7 +296,8 @@ static int recover_inode(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio)
 {
 	struct f2fs_inode *raw = F2FS_INODE(folio);
 	struct f2fs_inode_info *fi = F2FS_I(inode);
-	char *name;
+	const char *name;
+	int name_len;
 	int err;
 
 	inode->i_mode = le16_to_cpu(raw->i_mode);

@@ -331,13 +346,11 @@ static int recover_inode(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio)
 
 	f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode, true);
 
-	if (file_enc_name(inode))
-		name = "<encrypted>";
-	else
-		name = F2FS_INODE(folio)->i_name;
+	name = recover_printable_name(inode, raw, &name_len);
 
-	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "recover_inode: ino = %x, name = %s, inline = %x",
-		    ino_of_node(folio), name, raw->i_inline);
+	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %.*s, inline = %x",
+		    __func__, ino_of_node(folio), name_len, name,
+		    raw->i_inline);
 	return 0;
 }
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PATCH 1/1 f2fs: limit recovery filename logging to stored length

From: Wenjie Qi <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 01027b2fcb74dade59fb833b51023f6593b6a9a2 ]

F2FS stores recovery filenames as a length plus a fixed-size i_name buffer. The buffer is not NUL-terminated, but recover_inode() and recover_dentry() print it with %s.

For a 255-byte filename, recovery logging can read past i_name into the following raw inode fields.

Print the name with a precision bounded by i_namelen and F2FS_NAME_LEN.

Fixes f356fe0cba0e ("f2fs: add debug msgs in the recovery routine")
Cc [email protected]
Assisted-by Codex:gpt-5.5
Signed-off-by Wenjie Qi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
[ inlined recover_printable_name() logic into the existing page-based recovery functions. ]
Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
fs/f2fs/recovery.c +22 -11
index 339239bb7f63c..fd17ed279f282 100644
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct page *ipage,
 	struct inode *dir, *einode;
 	struct fsync_inode_entry *entry;
 	int err = 0;
-	char *name;
+	const char *name;
+	int name_len;
 
 	entry = get_fsync_inode(dir_list, pino);
 	if (!entry) {

@@ -230,12 +231,16 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct page *ipage,
 out_put:
 	f2fs_put_page(page, 0);
 out:
-	if (file_enc_name(inode))
+	if (file_enc_name(inode)) {
 		name = "<encrypted>";
-	else
+		name_len = sizeof("<encrypted>") - 1;
+	} else {
 		name = raw_inode->i_name;
-	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %s, dir = %lx, err = %d",
-		    __func__, ino_of_node(ipage), name,
+		name_len = min_t(unsigned int, le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_namelen),
+				 F2FS_NAME_LEN);
+	}
+	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %.*s, dir = %lx, err = %d",
+		    __func__, ino_of_node(ipage), name_len, name,
 		    IS_ERR(dir) ? 0 : dir->i_ino, err);
 	return err;
 }

@@ -282,7 +287,8 @@ static void recover_inline_flags(struct inode *inode, struct f2fs_inode *ri)
 static int recover_inode(struct inode *inode, struct page *page)
 {
 	struct f2fs_inode *raw = F2FS_INODE(page);
-	char *name;
+	const char *name;
+	int name_len;
 	int err;
 
 	inode->i_mode = le16_to_cpu(raw->i_mode);

@@ -332,13 +338,18 @@ static int recover_inode(struct inode *inode, struct page *page)
 
 	f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode, true);
 
-	if (file_enc_name(inode))
+	if (file_enc_name(inode)) {
 		name = "<encrypted>";
-	else
-		name = F2FS_INODE(page)->i_name;
+		name_len = sizeof("<encrypted>") - 1;
+	} else {
+		name = raw->i_name;
+		name_len = min_t(unsigned int, le32_to_cpu(raw->i_namelen),
+				 F2FS_NAME_LEN);
+	}
 
-	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "recover_inode: ino = %x, name = %s, inline = %x",
-		    ino_of_node(page), name, raw->i_inline);
+	f2fs_notice(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: ino = %x, name = %.*s, inline = %x",
+		    __func__, ino_of_node(page), name_len, name,
+		    raw->i_inline);
 	return 0;
 }
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