linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:34:41 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mfasheh@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2

On Thu 05-02-09 16:37:44, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > 
> 
> >   the three patches below fix a bug in
> > jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() that could possibly lead to
> > NULL pointer dereference. The question is how to merge the fix as it
> > changes the prototype of the function and both ext4 and ocfs2 use
> > it.  Mark, Mingming, any suggestions?
> 
> Jan, how how easy is it to hit this?  Do you believe we should try to
> get this in for 2.6.29?  I got some final things to push to Linus so
> I can also push it via the ext4 tree.  I doubt it will conflict with
> > anything in my tree, either.
  The possibility of hitting this is quite small. We check
inode->i_transaction for NULL just before dereferencing it so the commit
would have to set it to NULL just between those two instructions.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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