linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: When restarting fsck on account of MMP, zero ctx->fs after fs is freed

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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:38:09 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: When restarting fsck on account of MMP, zero
 ctx->fs after fs is freed

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:40:05PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If MMP is enabled and e2fsck determines that it needs to restart itself on
> account of various MMP conditions, it will close the current fs and jump back
> to the start of fs checking.  However, closing fs also frees it, which means
> that we need to set ctx->fs to NULL to prevent subsequent open code from
> accessing the old deleted pointer.
> 
> (This fix came up while testing the metadata checksumming patchset)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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