Patchwork [Quantal] ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts concurrently

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Submitter Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date Sept. 26, 2012, 1:35 p.m.
Message ID <1348666518-4820-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
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Permalink /patch/187081/
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Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski - Sept. 26, 2012, 1:35 p.m.
The crash was caused by a variable being erronously declared static in
token2str().

In addition to /proc/mounts, the problem can also be easily replicated
by accessing /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options in parallel:

$ cat /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options > options.txt

... and then running the following command in two different terminals:

$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done

This is also the cause of the following a crash while running xfstests
#234, as reported in the following bug reports:

	https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019
	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47731

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019
(cherry picked from commit 04b6f64bf52bd6d0b8dcd912e8fec8d672d44d4a,
 at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git dev)
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Tim Gardner - Sept. 26, 2012, 1:43 p.m.

Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index afeddd7..51d24ea 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@  static inline void ext4_show_quota_options(struct seq_file *seq,
 
 static const char *token2str(int token)
 {
-	static const struct match_token *t;
+	const struct match_token *t;
 
 	for (t = tokens; t->token != Opt_err; t++)
 		if (t->token == token && !strchr(t->pattern, '='))