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f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by incorrect nat_entry flag usage
authorYongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:36:12 +0000 (17:36 +0800)
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2026 16:24:19 +0000 (16:24 +0000)
commit019f9dda7f66e55eb94cd32e1d3fff5835f73fbc
treef3600d0fe8d2effe7501d48562defaeddaed930d
parent6af249c996f7d73a3435f9e577956fa259347d18
f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by incorrect nat_entry flag usage

f2fs_need_dentry_mark() reads nat_entry flags without mutual exclusion
with the checkpoint path, which can result in an incorrect inode block
marking state. The scenario is as follows:

create & write & fsync 'file A'                 write checkpoint
- f2fs_do_sync_file // inline inode
 - f2fs_write_inode // inode folio is dirty
                                                - f2fs_write_checkpoint
                                                 - f2fs_flush_merged_writes
                                                 - f2fs_sync_node_pages
 - f2fs_fsync_node_pages // no dirty node
 - f2fs_need_inode_block_update // return true
 - f2fs_fsync_node_pages // inode dirtied
  - f2fs_need_dentry_mark //return true
                                                 - f2fs_flush_nat_entries
                                                - f2fs_write_checkpoint end
  - __write_node_folio // inode with DENT_BIT_SHIFT set
  SPO, "fsck --dry-run" find inode has already checkpointed but still
  with DENT_BIT_SHIFT set

The state observed by f2fs_need_dentry_mark() can differ from the state
observed in __write_node_folio() after acquiring sbi->node_write. The
root cause is that the semantics of IS_CHECKPOINTED and
HAS_FSYNCED_INODE are only guaranteed after the checkpoint write has
fully completed.

This patch moves set_dentry_mark() into __write_node_folio() and
protects it with the sbi->node_write lock.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 88bd02c9472a ("f2fs: fix conditions to remain recovery information in f2fs_sync_file")
Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
fs/f2fs/node.c