linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:11:12 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	sliedes@...hut.fi
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info.

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

During mount, when we fail to open journal inode or root inode, the
__save_error_info will mod_timer. But actually s_err_report isn't
initialized yet and the kernel oops. The detailed information can
be found https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32082.

The best way is to check whether the timer s_err_report is initialized
or not. But it seems that in include/linux/timer.h, we can't find a
good function to check the status of this timer, so this patch just
move the initializtion of s_err_report earlier so that we can avoid
the kernel panic. The corresponding del_timer is also added in the
error path.

Reported-by: Sami Liedes <sliedes@...hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 22546ad..ae91210 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3385,6 +3385,10 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	get_random_bytes(&sbi->s_next_generation, sizeof(u32));
 	spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);

+	init_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
+	sbi->s_err_report.function = print_daily_error_info;
+	sbi->s_err_report.data = (unsigned long) sb;
+
 	err = percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter,
 			ext4_count_free_blocks(sb));
 	if (!err) {
@@ -3646,9 +3650,6 @@ no_journal:
 		 "Opts: %s%s%s", descr, sbi->s_es->s_mount_opts,
 		 *sbi->s_es->s_mount_opts ? "; " : "", orig_data);

-	init_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
-	sbi->s_err_report.function = print_daily_error_info;
-	sbi->s_err_report.data = (unsigned long) sb;
 	if (es->s_error_count)
 		mod_timer(&sbi->s_err_report, jiffies + 300*HZ); /* 5 minutes */

@@ -3672,6 +3673,7 @@ failed_mount_wq:
 		sbi->s_journal = NULL;
 	}
 failed_mount3:
+	del_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
 	if (sbi->s_flex_groups) {
 		if (is_vmalloc_addr(sbi->s_flex_groups))
 			vfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
-- 
1.6.3.GIT

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