linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: fix ext4_end_io_dio() racing against fsync()

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Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:48 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	curtw@...gle.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix ext4_end_io_dio() racing against fsync()

We need to make sure iocb->private is cleared *before* we put the
io_end structure on i_completed_io_list.  Otherwise fsync() could
potentially run on another CPU and free the iocb structure out from
under us.

Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 848f436..d2c8663 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2781,10 +2781,11 @@ static void ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
  		  iocb->private, io_end->inode->i_ino, iocb, offset,
 		  size);
 
+	iocb->private = NULL;
+
 	/* if not aio dio with unwritten extents, just free io and return */
 	if (!(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
 		ext4_free_io_end(io_end);
-		iocb->private = NULL;
 out:
 		if (is_async)
 			aio_complete(iocb, ret, 0);
@@ -2807,7 +2808,6 @@ out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags);
 
 	/* queue the work to convert unwritten extents to written */
-	iocb->private = NULL;
 	queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
 
 	/* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */
-- 
1.7.4.1.22.gec8e1.dirty

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