linux-kernel - Re: isofs oops - d_splice_alias+0x1f (2.6.24-rc5-mm1)

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Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:51:28 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: isofs oops - d_splice_alias+0x1f (2.6.24-rc5-mm1)

Hi Jiri,

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> this happened, while playing with broken dvd.

[snip]

> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5441
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 136
> ISOFS: unable to read i-node block
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000ad RIP:
>  [<ffffffff802a679f>] d_splice_alias+0x1f/0x100

[snip]

> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff880d2395>] :isofs:isofs_lookup+0x395/0x4a0
>  [<ffffffff802a565b>] d_alloc+0x2b/0x1d0
>  [<ffffffff8029a97c>] do_lookup+0x1ac/0x200

Does the following patch fix it?

			Pekka

[PATCH] isofs: check for bad inode in isofs_lookup
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

If isofs_read_inode() fails to read one of the inode blocks from disk, it
returns a bad inode.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
---
 fs/isofs/namei.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/isofs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/isofs/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/isofs/namei.c
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ struct dentry *isofs_lookup(struct inode
 			unlock_kernel();
 			return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
 		}
+		if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
+			unlock_kernel();
+			iput(inode);
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+		}
 	}
 	unlock_kernel();
 	return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
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