Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: fix folio_nr_pages() race after put in large folio invalidate

Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:25:20 +0800
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On 7/13/26 19:19, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <[email protected]>
> 
> Our v6.18 based Android system is continuely suffering livelock and bad
> page stat as shown in[1] which related to broken xarray slot status. By
> investigating big folio operations within f2fs, we find below races and
> fix it by get the nr_pages before drop the refcount and folio_lock.
> 
> f2fs_get_read_data_folio() calls f2fs_folio_put() before
> folio_nr_pages() when invalidating a large folio from the page cache.
> That unlocks the folio and drops the caller reference, leaving a window
> where a concurrent truncate or folio split can shrink the compound folio
> or free it before the invalidate range is computed. An undersized range
> then leaves split sub-folios in mapping->i_pages, which can later
> interact badly with truncate and reclaim (stale xarray entries and bad
> page state when folio->mapping no longer matches the mapping being
> truncated).
> 
> [1]
> PID: 2594     TASK: ffffff8169b81580  CPU: 7    COMMAND: "Thread-3"
>   #0 [ffffffc08ef2b8a0] xas_load at ffffffe52d1f42a4
>   #1 [ffffffc08ef2b900] find_get_entries at ffffffe52c185798
>   #2 [ffffffc08ef2bb60] truncate_inode_pages_range at ffffffe52c19e83c
>   #3 [ffffffc08ef2bbc0] truncate_inode_pages_final at ffffffe52c19ec2c
>   #4 [ffffffc08ef2bc20] f2fs_evict_inode at ffffffe52c4c8400
>   #5 [ffffffc08ef2bcc0] evict at ffffffe52c2de9f4
>   #6 [ffffffc08ef2bd00] iput at ffffffe52c2db1b4
>   #7 [ffffffc08ef2bd30] dentry_unlink_inode at ffffffe52c2d7204
>   #8 [ffffffc08ef2bd50] __dentry_kill at ffffffe52c2d3dcc
>   #9 [ffffffc08ef2bd80] dput at ffffffe52c2d3c3c
>   #10 [ffffffc08ef2bda0] __fput at ffffffe52c2b0a7c
>   #11 [ffffffc08ef2bde0] ____fput at ffffffe52c2b1034
>   #12 [ffffffc08ef2bdf0] task_work_run at ffffffe52beea200
>   #13 [ffffffc08ef2be20] exit_to_user_mode_loop at ffffffe52bfbc17c
>   #14 [ffffffc08ef2be80] el0_svc at ffffffe52d1f8e54
>   #15 [ffffffc08ef2beb0] el0t_64_sync_handler at ffffffe52d1f8d10
> 

Need fixes and Cc stable line.

> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <[email protected]>

Anyway, the code part looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>

Thanks,


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