[PATCH 03/19] jbd2: point the shadow buffer at the frozen data directly

Chao Shi <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 18:00:47 -0400
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel,dev.linux.lists.gfs2,org.kernel.vger.linux-ext4,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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When a metadata buffer has to be copied out before it can be journalled,
jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() writes jh->b_frozen_data rather than
the page cache copy.  b_frozen_data is kmalloc()ed, so folio_set_bh() makes
the shadow buffer point at a slab folio.

That is not something the buffer_head layer can reason about.  A slab folio
overloads ->mapping, so a shadow buffer looks like it belongs to an
address_space when it does not.  buffer_set_crypto_ctx() already has to use
folio_mapping() to avoid tripping over this, and it is the reason
mark_buffer_write_io_error() cannot be called on a shadow buffer today.

Point the shadow buffer at the frozen data itself instead: leave b_folio
NULL and set b_data.  The previous patch taught fs/buffer.c to submit such
a buffer.  The two commit-path checksum helpers are the only other users of
the shadow buffer's contents, and they take the data directly rather than
kmapping a folio that is already mapped.

Note that the shadow buffer must not be passed to bh_offset() while
b_folio is NULL.  All four callers that can see one are handled here and in
the previous patch.

Tested with ext4 mounted data=journal,journal_checksum on a metadata_csum
filesystem, writing files whose every block begins with the JBD2 magic so
that escaping forces the copy-out, then crashing with sysrq-b without
unmounting and replaying the journal on the next mount.  Recovery
completed, the file contents matched, e2fsck -fn was clean, and an
instrumented build confirmed the b_folio == NULL path was taken.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chao Shi <[email protected]>
---
 fs/jbd2/commit.c  | 12 +++++++++---
 fs/jbd2/journal.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 3029cb6f6d64..60273cddf434 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -330,6 +330,8 @@ static __u32 jbd2_checksum_data(__u32 crc32_sum, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	char *addr;
 	__u32 checksum;
 
+	if (!bh->b_folio)
+		return crc32_be(crc32_sum, bh->b_data, bh->b_size);
 	addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
 	checksum = crc32_be(crc32_sum, addr, bh->b_size);
 	kunmap_local(addr);
@@ -357,10 +359,14 @@ static void jbd2_block_tag_csum_set(journal_t *j, journal_block_tag_t *tag,
 		return;
 
 	seq = cpu_to_be32(sequence);
-	addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
 	csum32 = jbd2_chksum(j->j_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&seq, sizeof(seq));
-	csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, addr, bh->b_size);
-	kunmap_local(addr);
+	if (!bh->b_folio) {
+		csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, bh->b_data, bh->b_size);
+	} else {
+		addr = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
+		csum32 = jbd2_chksum(csum32, addr, bh->b_size);
+		kunmap_local(addr);
+	}
 
 	if (jbd2_has_feature_csum3(j))
 		tag3->t_checksum = cpu_to_be32(csum32);
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 09efa337649e..9e4cb04587b4 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
 	struct buffer_head *new_bh;
 	struct folio *new_folio;
 	unsigned int new_offset;
+	bool frozen = false;
 	struct buffer_head *bh_in = jh2bh(jh_in);
 	journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;
 
@@ -354,8 +355,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
 	 * we use that version of the data for the commit.
 	 */
 	if (jh_in->b_frozen_data) {
-		new_folio = virt_to_folio(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
-		new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, jh_in->b_frozen_data);
+		frozen = true;
 		do_escape = jbd2_data_needs_escaping(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
 		if (do_escape)
 			jbd2_data_do_escape(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
@@ -400,13 +400,22 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
 		jh_in->b_frozen_triggers = jh_in->b_triggers;
 
 copy_done:
-		new_folio = virt_to_folio(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
-		new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, jh_in->b_frozen_data);
+		frozen = true;
 		jbd2_data_do_escape(jh_in->b_frozen_data);
 	}
 
 escape_done:
-	folio_set_bh(new_bh, new_folio, new_offset);
+	if (frozen) {
+		/*
+		 * b_frozen_data is slab memory, not page cache.  Point the
+		 * buffer at it directly rather than at a slab folio, whose
+		 * ->mapping is not an address_space.
+		 */
+		new_bh->b_folio = NULL;
+		new_bh->b_data = jh_in->b_frozen_data;
+	} else {
+		folio_set_bh(new_bh, new_folio, new_offset);
+	}
 	new_bh->b_size = bh_in->b_size;
 	new_bh->b_bdev = journal->j_dev;
 	new_bh->b_blocknr = blocknr;
-- 
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