On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 02:41:53PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 10/14/25 20:17, Nikola Z. Ivanov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:53:04PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> >> On 10/13/25 05:19, Nikola Z. Ivanov wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 10:54:40AM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> >>>> On 10/3/2025 9:47 PM, Nikola Z. Ivanov wrote:
> >>>>> Current i_nlink corruption check does not take into account
> >>>>> directory inodes which have one additional i_nlink for their "." entry.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Add additional check and a common corruption path.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Reported-by: [email protected]
> >>>>> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c07d47c7bc68f47b9083
> >>>>> Fixes: 81edb983b3f5 ("f2fs: add check for deleted inode")
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Nikola Z. Ivanov <[email protected]>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>>   fs/f2fs/namei.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >>>>>   1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/namei.c b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
> >>>>> index b882771e4699..68b33e8089b0 100644
> >>>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/namei.c
> >>>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
> >>>>> @@ -502,12 +502,14 @@ static struct dentry *f2fs_lookup(struct inode 
> >>>>> *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> >>>>>                 goto out;
> >>>>>         }
> >>>>> -       if (inode->i_nlink == 0) {
> >>>>> +       if (unlikely(inode->i_nlink == 0)) {
> >>>>>                 f2fs_warn(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: inode (ino=%lx) has 
> >>>>> zero i_nlink",
> >>>>>                           __func__, inode->i_ino);
> >>>>> -               err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> >>>>> -               set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> >>>>> -               goto out_iput;
> >>>>> +               goto corrupted;
> >>>>> +       } else if (unlikely(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_nlink == 
> >>>>> 1)) {
> >>>>> +               f2fs_warn(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: directory inode 
> >>>>> (ino=%lx) has a single i_nlink",
> >>>>> +                         __func__, inode->i_ino);
> >>>>> +               goto corrupted;
> >>>>
> >>>> Can we detect such corruption in sanity_check_inode() as well? So that if
> >>>> f2fs internal flow calls f2fs_iget() on corrupted inode, we can set 
> >>>> SBI_NEED_FSCK
> >>>> flag and then triggering fsck repairment later.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>>>         }
> >>>>>         if (IS_ENCRYPTED(dir) &&
> >>>>> @@ -533,6 +535,9 @@ static struct dentry *f2fs_lookup(struct inode 
> >>>>> *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> >>>>>         trace_f2fs_lookup_end(dir, !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new) ? new : dentry,
> >>>>>                                 ino, IS_ERR(new) ? PTR_ERR(new) : err);
> >>>>>         return new;
> >>>>> +corrupted:
> >>>>> +       err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> >>>>> +       set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> >>>>>   out_iput:
> >>>>>         iput(inode);
> >>>>>   out:
> >>>>> @@ -572,10 +577,11 @@ static int f2fs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct 
> >>>>> dentry *dentry)
> >>>>>         if (unlikely(inode->i_nlink == 0)) {
> >>>>>                 f2fs_warn(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: inode (ino=%lx) has 
> >>>>> zero i_nlink",
> >>>>>                           __func__, inode->i_ino);
> >>>>> -               err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> >>>>> -               set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> >>>>> -               f2fs_folio_put(folio, false);
> >>>>> -               goto fail;
> >>>>> +               goto corrupted;
> >>>>> +       } else if (unlikely(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_nlink == 
> >>>>> 1)) {
> >>>>> +               f2fs_warn(F2FS_I_SB(inode), "%s: directory inode 
> >>>>> (ino=%lx) has a single i_nlink",
> >>>>> +                         __func__, inode->i_ino);
> >>>>> +               goto corrupted;
> >>>>>         }
> >>>>>         f2fs_balance_fs(sbi, true);
> >>>>> @@ -601,6 +607,12 @@ static int f2fs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct 
> >>>>> dentry *dentry)
> >>>>>         if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
> >>>>>                 f2fs_sync_fs(sbi->sb, 1);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +       goto fail;
> >>>>> +corrupted:
> >>>>> +       err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> >>>>> +       set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> >>>>> +       f2fs_folio_put(folio, false);
> >>>>>   fail:
> >>>>>         trace_f2fs_unlink_exit(inode, err);
> >>>>>         return err;
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Chao,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the suggestion.
> >>> I will add this to sanity_check_inode and remove it
> >>> from f2fs_lookup as it becomes redundant since f2fs_lookup
> >>> obtains the inode through f2fs_iget. For f2fs_unlink I will
> >>> move the i_nlink == 1 check to f2fs_rmdir.
> >>
> >> Hi Nikola,
> >>
> >> I meant we can move the i_nlink == 1 check from both f2fs_lookup() and
> >> f2fs_unlink() to sanity_check_inode(), because before we create in-memory
> >> inode, we will always call sanity_check_inode().
> >>
> >> Let me know if you have other concerns.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> > 
> > The issue here is that sanity_check_inode will be called only when 
> > we initially read the inode off disk, not when it's already in the cache
> > 
> > The syzkaller repro does something like this:
> > Creates a directory structure /dir1/dir2 where dir1 has
> > i_nlink == 2, which is one less than it should. It then does
> > rmdir(/dir1/dir2) followed by rmdir(/dir1) which leads to the warning.
> 
> Oh, I missed this case.
> 
> > 
> > In such case what would you say should happen, should the second rmdir
> > fail and report the corruption, or do we close our eyes and just drop
> > i_nlink to 0 and possibly log a message that something isn't quite right?
> 
> I agreed that we should keep i_nlink == 1 check in f2fs_unlink().
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Hi Chao,

Just to make sure we're on the same page, do you mean to keep the check 
in f2fs_unlink as well as sanity_check_inode, or only do it in f2fs_unlink?

> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> >>>
> >>> I will send v2 as soon as I do some more testing.
> >>
> 


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