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Darrick J. Wong f31a8334e1 xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty 
[ Upstream commit 6f13c1d2a6 ]

Back in commit 2a2b5932db ("xfs: fix attr leaf header freemap.size
underflow"), Brian Foster observed that it's possible for a small
freemap at the end of the end of the xattr entries array to experience
a size underflow when subtracting the space consumed by an expansion of
the entries array.  There are only three freemap entries, which means
that it is not a complete index of all free space in the leaf block.

This code can leave behind a zero-length freemap entry with a nonzero
base.  Subsequent setxattr operations can increase the base up to the
point that it overlaps with another freemap entry.  This isn't in and of
itself a problem because the code in _leaf_add that finds free space
ignores any freemap entry with zero size.

However, there's another bug in the freemap update code in _leaf_add,
which is that it fails to update a freemap entry that begins midway
through the xattr entry that was just appended to the array.  That can
result in the freemap containing two entries with the same base but
different sizes (0 for the "pushed-up" entry, nonzero for the entry
that's actually tracking free space).  A subsequent _leaf_add can then
allocate xattr namevalue entries on top of the entries array, leading to
data loss.  But fixing that is for later.

For now, eliminate the possibility of confusion by zeroing out the base
of any freemap entry that has zero size.  Because the freemap is not
intended to be a complete index of free space, a subsequent failure to
find any free space for a new xattr will trigger block compaction, which
regenerates the freemap.

It looks like this bug has been in the codebase for quite a long time.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.12
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-03-04 07:21:14 -05:00
arch arm64: dts: rockchip: Explicitly request UFS reset pin on RK3576 2026-03-04 07:21:13 -05:00
block block: decouple secure erase size limit from discard size limit 2026-03-04 07:19:38 -05:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec 2026-01-30 10:32:12 +01:00
Documentation ipv6: Move ipv6_fl_list from ipv6_pinfo to inet_sock. 2026-03-04 07:20:44 -05:00
drivers usb: host: tegra: Remove manual wake IRQ disposal 2026-03-04 07:21:14 -05:00
fs xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty 2026-03-04 07:21:14 -05:00
include mfd: tps65219: Implement LOCK register handling for TPS65214 2026-03-04 07:21:12 -05:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/timeout: annotate data race in io_flush_timeouts() 2026-03-04 07:19:36 -05:00
ipc ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions() 2026-02-26 14:59:19 -08:00
kernel Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option 2026-03-04 07:20:46 -05:00
lib Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option 2026-03-04 07:20:46 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm, page_alloc, thp: prevent reclaim for __GFP_THISNODE THP allocations 2026-03-04 07:21:10 -05:00
net netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() 2026-03-04 07:20:52 -05:00
rust rust: cpufreq: always inline functions using build_assert with arguments 2026-03-04 07:19:37 -05:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
scripts docs: kdoc: avoid error_count overflows 2026-03-04 07:21:10 -05:00
security apparmor: fix aa_label to return state from compount and component match 2026-02-26 14:59:42 -08:00
sound ASoC: SOF: ipc4-control: Keep the payload size up to date 2026-03-04 07:20:54 -05:00
tools selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb: drop mount size for hugetlbfs 2026-03-04 07:21:10 -05:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd 2026-02-11 13:41:44 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.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 MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.15 2026-02-27 16:05:10 -05:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.