From patchwork Wed Sep 26 13:35:18 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Quantal] ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts concurrently Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:35:18 -0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 187081 Message-Id: <1348666518-4820-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> To: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com 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//options in parallel: $ cat /proc/fs/ext4//options > options.txt ... and then running the following command in two different terminals: $ while diff /proc/fs/ext4//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 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Brad Figg 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(-) 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, '='))