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[1/2,take,2] ext3: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext3_abort

Message ID 4905A99F.8000605@hitachi.com
State Accepted, archived
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Hidehiro Kawai Oct. 27, 2008, 11:44 a.m. UTC 
Ingo Molnar wrote:

> * Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> wrote:
> 
>>Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory.  When
>>journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls ext4_abort() after
>>freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort() accesses it.
>>This patch fix it.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
> 
> could you please put the word "kmemcheck" into the commit log? ("found 
> via kmemcheck" or so) We want to have an easily git-greppable track 
> record of upstream kernel bugs that were found via kmemcheck. (and 
> there's already a long list)

Ah, OK.  I fixed the commit log.

Thanks,


Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ext3: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext3_abort

Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory (found via
kmemcheck).  When journal has been aborted, ext3_put_super() calls
ext3_abort() after freeing the journal_t object, and then ext3_abort()
accesses it.  This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext3/super.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)



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Patch

Index: linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext3/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28-rc2.orig/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@  void ext3_abort (struct super_block * sb
 	EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT3_ERROR_FS;
 	sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
 	EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt |= EXT3_MOUNT_ABORT;
-	journal_abort(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
+	if (EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal)
+		journal_abort(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
 }
 
 void ext3_warning (struct super_block * sb, const char * function,
@@ -390,11 +391,14 @@  static void ext3_put_super (struct super
 {
 	struct ext3_sb_info *sbi = EXT3_SB(sb);
 	struct ext3_super_block *es = sbi->s_es;
-	int i;
+	int i, err;
 
 	ext3_xattr_put_super(sb);
-	if (journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal) < 0)
+	err = journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
+	sbi->s_journal = NULL;
+	if (err < 0)
 		ext3_abort(sb, __func__, "Couldn't clean up the journal");
+
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 		es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);