In jbd2_journal_get_create_access(), if the caller passes an unlocked buffer, the code currently triggers a fatal J_ASSERT. While an unlocked buffer here is a clear API violation and a bug in the caller, crashing the entire system is an overly severe response. It brings down the whole machine for a localized filesystem inconsistency. Replace the J_ASSERT with a WARN_ON_ONCE to capture the offending caller's stack trace, and return an error (-EINVAL). This allows the journal to gracefully abort the transaction, protecting data integrity without causing a kernel panic. Signed-off-by: Milos Nikic Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger --- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index dca4b5d8aaaa..04d17a5f2a82 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -1302,7 +1302,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_create_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) goto out; } - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, buffer_locked(jh2bh(jh))); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_locked(jh2bh(jh)))) { + err = -EINVAL; + spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, err); + goto out; + } if (jh->b_transaction == NULL) { /* -- 2.53.0 Auditing the jbd2 codebase reveals several legacy J_ASSERT calls that enforce internal state machine invariants (e.g., verifying jh->b_transaction or jh->b_next_transaction pointers). When these invariants are broken, the journal is in a corrupted state. However, triggering a fatal panic brings down the entire system for a localized filesystem error. This patch targets a specific class of these asserts: those residing inside functions that natively return integer error codes, booleans, or error pointers. It replaces the hard J_ASSERTs with WARN_ON_ONCE to capture the offending stack trace, safely drops any held locks, gracefully aborts the journal, and returns -EINVAL. This prevents a catastrophic kernel panic while ensuring the corrupted journal state is safely contained and upstream callers (like ext4 or ocfs2) can gracefully handle the aborted handle. Functions modified in fs/jbd2/transaction.c: - jbd2__journal_start() - do_get_write_access() - jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() - jbd2_journal_forget() - jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() - jbd2_journal_file_inode() Signed-off-by: Milos Nikic --- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index 04d17a5f2a82..bae6c99d635c 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ handle_t *jbd2__journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks, int rsv_blocks, return ERR_PTR(-EROFS); if (handle) { - J_ASSERT(handle->h_transaction->t_journal == journal); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(handle->h_transaction->t_journal != journal)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); handle->h_ref++; return handle; } @@ -1036,7 +1037,13 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh, */ if (!jh->b_transaction) { JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "no transaction"); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, !jh->b_next_transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_next_transaction)) { + spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + unlock_buffer(bh); + error = -EINVAL; + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, error); + goto out; + } JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Reserved"); /* * Make sure all stores to jh (b_modified, b_frozen_data) are @@ -1069,13 +1076,27 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh, */ if (jh->b_frozen_data) { JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "has frozen data"); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_next_transaction == NULL); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_next_transaction)) { + spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + error = -EINVAL; + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, error); + goto out; + } goto attach_next; } JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "owned by older transaction"); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_next_transaction == NULL); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_next_transaction || + jh->b_transaction != + journal->j_committing_transaction)) { + pr_err("JBD2: %s: assertion failure: b_next_transaction=%p b_transaction=%p j_committing_transaction=%p\n", + journal->j_devname, jh->b_next_transaction, + jh->b_transaction, journal->j_committing_transaction); + spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + error = -EINVAL; + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, error); + goto out; + } /* * There is one case we have to be very careful about. If the @@ -1496,7 +1517,7 @@ void jbd2_buffer_abort_trigger(struct journal_head *jh, int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) { transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction; - journal_t *journal; + journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal; struct journal_head *jh; int ret = 0; @@ -1520,8 +1541,14 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) if (data_race(jh->b_transaction != transaction && jh->b_next_transaction != transaction)) { spin_lock(&jh->b_state_lock); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == transaction || - jh->b_next_transaction == transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_transaction != transaction && + jh->b_next_transaction != transaction)) { + pr_err("JBD2: %s: assertion failure: b_transaction=%p transaction=%p b_next_transaction=%p\n", + journal->j_devname, jh->b_transaction, + transaction, jh->b_next_transaction); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock_bh; + } spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); } if (data_race(jh->b_modified == 1)) { @@ -1531,13 +1558,15 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) spin_lock(&jh->b_state_lock); if (jh->b_transaction == transaction && jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata) - pr_err("JBD2: assertion failure: h_type=%u " - "h_line_no=%u block_no=%llu jlist=%u\n", + pr_err("JBD2: assertion failure: h_type=%u h_line_no=%u block_no=%llu jlist=%u\n", handle->h_type, handle->h_line_no, (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr, jh->b_jlist); - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction != transaction || - jh->b_jlist == BJ_Metadata); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_transaction == transaction && + jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock_bh; + } spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); } goto out; @@ -1557,8 +1586,6 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) goto out_unlock_bh; } - journal = transaction->t_journal; - if (jh->b_modified == 0) { /* * This buffer's got modified and becoming part @@ -1636,7 +1663,10 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) } /* That test should have eliminated the following case: */ - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_frozen_data == NULL); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_frozen_data)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock_bh; + } JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Metadata"); spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); @@ -1675,6 +1705,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_forget(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) int err = 0; int was_modified = 0; int wait_for_writeback = 0; + int abort_journal = 0; if (is_handle_aborted(handle)) return -EROFS; @@ -1708,7 +1739,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_forget(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) jh->b_modified = 0; if (jh->b_transaction == transaction) { - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, !jh->b_frozen_data); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_frozen_data)) { + err = -EINVAL; + abort_journal = 1; + goto drop; + } /* If we are forgetting a buffer which is already part * of this transaction, then we can just drop it from @@ -1747,8 +1782,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_forget(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); } else if (jh->b_transaction) { - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, (jh->b_transaction == - journal->j_committing_transaction)); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_transaction != journal->j_committing_transaction)) { + err = -EINVAL; + abort_journal = 1; + goto drop; + } /* However, if the buffer is still owned by a prior * (committing) transaction, we can't drop it yet... */ JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "belongs to older transaction"); @@ -1766,7 +1804,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_forget(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) jh->b_next_transaction = transaction; spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); } else { - J_ASSERT(jh->b_next_transaction == transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jh->b_next_transaction != transaction)) { + err = -EINVAL; + abort_journal = 1; + goto drop; + } /* * only drop a reference if this transaction modified @@ -1812,6 +1854,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_forget(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) drop: __brelse(bh); spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + if (abort_journal) + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, err); if (wait_for_writeback) wait_on_buffer(bh); jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh); @@ -2136,7 +2180,8 @@ bool jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal_t *journal, struct folio *folio) struct buffer_head *bh; bool ret = false; - J_ASSERT(folio_test_locked(folio)); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_locked(folio))) + return false; head = folio_buffers(folio); bh = head; @@ -2651,6 +2696,8 @@ static int jbd2_journal_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct jbd2_inode *jinode, { transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction; journal_t *journal; + int err = 0; + int abort_transaction = 0; if (is_handle_aborted(handle)) return -EROFS; @@ -2685,20 +2732,33 @@ static int jbd2_journal_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct jbd2_inode *jinode, /* On some different transaction's list - should be * the committing one */ if (jinode->i_transaction) { - J_ASSERT(jinode->i_next_transaction == NULL); - J_ASSERT(jinode->i_transaction == - journal->j_committing_transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jinode->i_next_transaction || + jinode->i_transaction != + journal->j_committing_transaction)) { + pr_err("JBD2: %s: assertion failure: i_next_transaction=%p i_transaction=%p j_committing_transaction=%p\n", + journal->j_devname, jinode->i_next_transaction, + jinode->i_transaction, + journal->j_committing_transaction); + err = -EINVAL; + abort_transaction = 1; + goto done; + } jinode->i_next_transaction = transaction; goto done; } /* Not on any transaction list... */ - J_ASSERT(!jinode->i_next_transaction); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(jinode->i_next_transaction)) { + err = -EINVAL; + abort_transaction = 1; + goto done; + } jinode->i_transaction = transaction; list_add(&jinode->i_list, &transaction->t_inode_list); done: spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); - - return 0; + if (abort_transaction) + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, err); + return err; } int jbd2_journal_inode_ranged_write(handle_t *handle, -- 2.53.0