Commit 91aa11fa authored Aug 12, 2013 by Jan Kara Committed by Theodore Ts'o Aug 12, 2013

jbd2: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()



When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error,
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this
function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed
handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely
we oops soon.

The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to
improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with
ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information.

Reported-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 3.2+

parent cde2d7a7

fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c

+4 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, unsigned int line,
		set_buffer_prio(bh);
		if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) {
		err = jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
		if (err) {
		/* Errors can only happen if there is a bug */
		handle->h_err = err;
		__ext4_journal_stop(where, line, handle);
		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err)) {
		ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, line, __func__, bh,
		handle, err);
		}
		} else {
		if (inode)

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