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[98.51.119.100]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-1279cbd1993sm6552005c88.2.2026.03.02.16.55.11 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:55:11 -0800 (PST) From: Milos Nikic To: jack@suse.cz Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milos Nikic , Zhang Yi Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] jbd2: gracefully abort instead of panicking on unlocked buffer Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 16:55:01 -0800 Message-ID: <20260303005502.337108-2-nikic.milos@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260303005502.337108-1-nikic.milos@gmail.com> References: <20260303005502.337108-1-nikic.milos@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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; } =20 - J_ASSERT_JH(jh, buffer_locked(jh2bh(jh))); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_locked(jh2bh(jh)))) { + err =3D -EINVAL; + spin_unlock(&jh->b_state_lock); + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, err); + goto out; + } =20 if (jh->b_transaction =3D=3D NULL) { /* --=20 2.53.0