The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: fix CFI failure when accessing /sys/fs/nilfs2/features/* has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is nilfs2-fix-cfi-failure-when-accessing-sys-fs-nilfs2-features.patch
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Subject: nilfs2: fix CFI failure when accessing /sys/fs/nilfs2/features/* Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 23:43:34 +0900
When accessing one of the files under /sys/fs/nilfs2/features when CONFIG_CFI_CLANG is enabled, there is a CFI violation:
CFI failure at kobj_attr_show+0x59/0x80 (target: nilfs_feature_revision_show+0x0/0x30; expected type: 0xfc392c4d) ... Call Trace: <TASK> sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x2a6/0x390 ? __cfi_kobj_attr_show+0x10/0x10 kernfs_seq_show+0x104/0x15b seq_read_iter+0x580/0xe2b ...
When the kobject of the kset for /sys/fs/nilfs2 is initialized, its ktype is set to kset_ktype, which has a ->sysfs_ops of kobj_sysfs_ops. When nilfs_feature_attr_group is added to that kobject via sysfs_create_group(), the kernfs_ops of each files is sysfs_file_kfops_rw, which will call sysfs_kf_seq_show() when ->seq_show() is called. sysfs_kf_seq_show() in turn calls kobj_attr_show() through ->sysfs_ops->show(). kobj_attr_show() casts the provided attribute out to a 'struct kobj_attribute' via container_of() and calls ->show(), resulting in the CFI violation since neither nilfs_feature_revision_show() nor nilfs_feature_README_show() match the prototype of ->show() in 'struct kobj_attribute'.
Resolve the CFI violation by adjusting the second parameter in nilfs_feature_{revision,README}_show() from 'struct attribute' to 'struct kobj_attribute' to match the expected prototype.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250906144410.22511-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: aebe17f68444 ("nilfs2: add /sys/fs/nilfs2/features group") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Reported-by: kernel test robot oliver.sang@intel.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202509021646.bc78d9ef-lkp@intel.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 ++-- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.h | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c~nilfs2-fix-cfi-failure-when-accessing-sys-fs-nilfs2-features +++ a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ void nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group(str ************************************************************************/
static ssize_t nilfs_feature_revision_show(struct kobject *kobj, - struct attribute *attr, char *buf) + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d.%d\n", NILFS_CURRENT_REV, NILFS_MINOR_REV); @@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ static const char features_readme_str[] "(1) revision\n\tshow current revision of NILFS file system driver.\n";
static ssize_t nilfs_feature_README_show(struct kobject *kobj, - struct attribute *attr, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { return sysfs_emit(buf, features_readme_str); --- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.h~nilfs2-fix-cfi-failure-when-accessing-sys-fs-nilfs2-features +++ a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.h @@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ struct nilfs_sysfs_dev_subgroups { struct completion sg_segments_kobj_unregister; };
-#define NILFS_COMMON_ATTR_STRUCT(name) \ +#define NILFS_KOBJ_ATTR_STRUCT(name) \ struct nilfs_##name##_attr { \ struct attribute attr; \ - ssize_t (*show)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, \ + ssize_t (*show)(struct kobject *, struct kobj_attribute *, \ char *); \ - ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, \ + ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct kobj_attribute *, \ const char *, size_t); \ }
-NILFS_COMMON_ATTR_STRUCT(feature); +NILFS_KOBJ_ATTR_STRUCT(feature);
#define NILFS_DEV_ATTR_STRUCT(name) \ struct nilfs_##name##_attr { \ _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from nathan@kernel.org are
compiler-clangh-define-__sanitize___-macros-only-when-undefined.patch nilfs2-fix-cfi-failure-when-accessing-sys-fs-nilfs2-features.patch mm-rmap-convert-enum-rmap_level-to-enum-pgtable_level-fix.patch