linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty

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Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:56:15 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Sage Weil <sage@...tank.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix use after free after error in
 jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:39:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error,
> __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this
> function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed
> handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely
> we oops soon.
> 
> The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into
> __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to
> improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with
> ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add
> WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information.
> 
> Reported-by: Sage Weil <sage@...tank.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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