Re: Kernel NULL pointer deref and data corruptions with xfs on 6.1

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 08:28:45 EST


On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:25:33AM +0100, Daniel Dao wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 4:27 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 11:49:04AM +0100, Daniel Dao wrote:
> > > We do not have a reproducer yet, but we now have more debugging data
> > > which hopefully
> > > should help narrow this down. Details as followed:
> > >
> > > 1. Kernel NULL pointer deferencences in __filemap_get_folio
> > >
> > > This happened on a few different hosts, with a few different repeated addresses.
> > > The addresses are 0000000000000036, 0000000000000076,
> > > 00000000000000f6. This looks
> > > like the xarray is corrupted and we were trying to do some work on a
> > > sibling entry.
> >
> > I think I have a fix for this one. Please try the attached.
>
> For some reason I do not see the attached patch. Can you resend it, or
> is it the same
> one as in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216646#c31 ?

Yes, that's the one, sorry.