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Qu Wenruo 0ef349734a btrfs: initialize inode mapping flags for cached inodes
[BUG]
When running generic/795 with 8K block size, 4K page size, the test
always fails, triggering some ASSERT()s related to folio size:

  795 (241074): drop_caches: 3
  assertion failed: IS_ALIGNED(start, blocksize) && IS_ALIGNED(end + 1, blocksize), in extent_io.c:1404 (blocksize=8192 root=262 ino=258 start=16826368 end=16830463 mapping min order=0)
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at extent_io.c:1404!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 241105 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G           OE       7.2.0-rc5-custom+ #442 PREEMPT(full)  f4bfb352566f3949f29c233ce6f735050a03b245
  Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
  RIP: 0010:assert_folio_range.cold+0x3d/0x3f [btrfs]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   btrfs_read_folio+0x9e/0x170 [btrfs 4cd1dd93b341b8ef766643f9512f4a86259567a3]
   prepare_one_folio.constprop.0+0x104/0x2a0 [btrfs 4cd1dd93b341b8ef766643f9512f4a86259567a3]
   btrfs_buffered_write+0x285/0xa50 [btrfs 4cd1dd93b341b8ef766643f9512f4a86259567a3]
   btrfs_do_write_iter+0x1aa/0x210 [btrfs 4cd1dd93b341b8ef766643f9512f4a86259567a3]
   iter_file_splice_write+0x31a/0x540
   direct_splice_actor+0x53/0x170
   splice_direct_to_actor+0xe9/0x240
   do_splice_direct+0x76/0xb0
   vfs_copy_file_range+0x1fd/0x630
   __x64_sys_copy_file_range+0xf9/0x220
   do_syscall_64+0xe1/0x790
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The ASSERT() itself is added by a later patch.
The crash is triggered with that new debug patch, and without this fix.

[CAUSE]
In the above case, the start 16826368 is properly 8K aligned, but the
end (16830463 + 1) is not 8K aligned.
Furthermore the mapping's minimal folio order is 0, not the expected 1
for 8K block size with 4K page size.

So this means some inodes do not have btrfs_set_inode_mapping_order()
called on it.

The missing btrfs_set_inode_mapping_order() call happens for cached
inodes, through the following events:

- btrfs_create_new_inode() called for inode X
  Which properly sets minimal folio order for the VFS inode.

- btrfs_update_inode() called for inode X
  Which calls btrfs_delayed_update_inode() to create a delayed_node
  into root->delayed_nodes xarray.

- Drop cache/memory pressure, evicting in-memory inode X
  Which evicted the inode X, but delayed_node is still in
  root->delayed_nodes for future reuse.

- btrfs_iget() for inode X called again

  btrfs_iget()
  |- btrfs_iget_locked()
  |  |- iget5_locked_rcu()
  |     Which creates a new vfs_inode for btrfs, whose mapping still
  |     has the minimal order as 0.
  |
  |- btrfs_read_locked_inode()
     |- btrfs_fill_inode()
     |  |- btrfs_get_delayed_node()
     |     Which found out the previous node, and use that delayed
     |     node to initialize the new inode.
     |
     |- filled = true;
     |- if (filled) goto cache_index;
        Which skips the btrfs_update_inode_mapping_flags() and
	btrfs_set_inode_mapping_order() calls.
	So the inode still has minimal folio order set as 0, not
	the required 1.

Thus later page cache read will get a folio whose size is smaller than
block size, as the mapping has its minimal folio order set as 0 not 1,
then trigger the ASSERT().

[FIX]
Move the btrfs_update_inode_mapping_flags() and
btrfs_set_inode_mapping_order() calls under cache_index label,
so that the mapping flags and minimal folio order is always set
no matter if we have a cached inode.

Assisted-by: LLM (analysis)
Fixes: ecde48a1a6 ("btrfs: expose per-inode stable writes flag")
Fixes: cc38d178ff ("btrfs: enable large data folio support under CONFIG_BTRFS_EXPERIMENTAL")
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
History 2026-07-31 16:56:05 +02:00
arch Miscellaneous x86 fixes: 2026-06-07 13:12:29 -07:00
block block-7.1-20260529 2026-05-29 10:41:07 -07:00
certs Clang build fixes for 7.1 2026-04-24 09:29:51 -07:00
crypto crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks 2026-05-20 16:36:45 -07:00
Documentation Including fixes from Netfilter, wireless and Bluetooth. 2026-06-04 14:35:55 -07:00
drivers regulator: Fix for v7.1 2026-06-07 12:39:36 -07:00
fs btrfs: initialize inode mapping flags for cached inodes 2026-07-31 16:56:05 +02:00
include btrfs: declare btrfs_ioctl_search_args_v2::buf as __u8 2026-07-14 07:02:39 +02:00
init memblock: updates for 7.0-rc1 2026-04-18 11:29:14 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-7.1-20260605 2026-06-05 13:52:15 -07:00
ipc ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range 2026-05-21 19:06:11 -07:00
kernel Miscellaneous timer fixes: 2026-06-07 13:02:02 -07:00
lib vdso/datastore: Mark vdso_k_*_data pointers as __ro_after_init 2026-06-02 21:39:29 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add modern form of the LGPL-2.1 tags to the usage guide section 2025-10-22 07:58:19 +02:00
mm 13 hotfixes. All are for MM. 10 are cc:stable and the remaining 3 2026-06-02 08:59:35 -07:00
net udp: clear skb->dev before running a sockmap verdict 2026-06-04 09:01:51 -07:00
rust rust: helpers: add is_vmalloc_addr wrapper for NOMMU builds 2026-05-27 20:01:04 +02:00
samples soc: drivers for 7.1 2026-04-16 20:34:34 -07:00
scripts Rust fixes for v7.1 (2nd) 2026-06-06 09:44:42 -07:00
security security/keys: fix missed RCU read section on lookup 2026-05-28 11:45:41 -07:00
sound ALSA: seq: dummy: fix UMP event stack overread 2026-06-05 10:08:57 +02:00
tools vfs-7.1-rc7.fixes 2026-06-06 07:28:59 -07:00
usr kbuild: uapi: also test UAPI headers against C++ compilers 2026-03-25 13:24:42 +01:00
virt KVM: Don't WARN if memory is dirtied without a vCPU when the VM is dying 2026-06-03 16:43:55 +02:00
.clang-format Devicetree updates for v7.0: 2026-02-11 18:27:08 -08:00
.clippy.toml rust: bump Clippy's MSRV and clean incompatible_msrv allows 2026-04-07 09:51:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig editorconfig: add rst extension 2026-01-26 19:07:09 -08:00
.get_maintainer.ignore .get_maintainer.ignore: add myself 2026-04-02 16:48:25 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust 2026-03-30 02:03:52 +02:00
.mailmap 13 hotfixes. 9 are for MM. 9 are cc:stable and the remaining 4 address 2026-05-26 08:23:19 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python 2025-11-18 09:22:40 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Delete some obsolete networking code 2026-04-24 09:41:58 -07:00
Kbuild checksyscalls: move instance functionality into generic code 2026-04-05 09:21:32 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS cgroup: Fixes for v7.1-rc6 2026-06-03 08:59:24 -07:00
Makefile Linux 7.1-rc7 2026-06-07 15:37:58 -07:00
README docs: add AI Coding Assistants documentation 2026-01-06 14:55:06 -07:00

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