jfs: nlink overflow in jfs_rename

[ Upstream commit 9218dc26fd922b09858ecd3666ed57dfd8098da8 ]

If nlink is maximal for a directory (-1) and inside that directory you
perform a rename for some child directory (not moving from the parent),
then the nlink of the first directory is first incremented and later
decremented. Normally this is fine, but when nlink = -1 this causes a
wrap around to 0, and then drop_nlink issues a warning.

After applying the patch syzbot no longer issues any warnings. I also
ran some basic fs tests to look for any regressions.

Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Reported-by: syzbot+9131ddfd7870623b719f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=9131ddfd7870623b719f
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Hecht <uli@kernel.org>
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Jori Koolstra authored and Ulrich Hecht committed 2026-04-12 13:56:47 +08:00
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@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ static int jfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
jfs_err("jfs_rename: dtInsert returned -EIO");
goto out_tx;
}
if (S_ISDIR(old_ip->i_mode))
if (S_ISDIR(old_ip->i_mode) && old_dir != new_dir)
inc_nlink(new_dir);
}
/*
@@ -1255,7 +1255,9 @@ static int jfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
goto out_tx;
}
if (S_ISDIR(old_ip->i_mode)) {
drop_nlink(old_dir);
if (new_ip || old_dir != new_dir)
drop_nlink(old_dir);
if (old_dir != new_dir) {
/*
* Change inode number of parent for moved directory