linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 20/25] jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:52:23 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/25] jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:44:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>  static inline int jbd2_handle_buffer_credits(handle_t *handle)
>  {
> -	return handle->h_buffer_credits;
> +	journal_t *journal = handle->h_transaction->t_journal;
> +
> +	return handle->h_buffer_credits -
> +		DIV_ROUND_UP(handle->h_revoke_credits_requested,
> +			     journal->j_revoke_records_per_block);
>  }

This patch is causing a crash with 'kvm-xfstests -c dioread_nolock ext4/024'.
Looks like this code incorrectly assumes that h_transaction is always valid
rather than the other member of the union, h_journal.


BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000614
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0 
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 105 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-00020-gfdc3ef882a5d #18
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20191013_105130-anatol 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ext4-rsv-conversion ext4_end_io_rsv_work
RIP: 0010:jbd2_handle_buffer_credits include/linux/jbd2.h:1656 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__ext4_journal_start_reserved+0x38/0x1f0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:122
Code: 83 ec 10 48 81 ff ff 0f 00 00 89 75 d4 89 55 d0 0f 86 f5 00 00 00 48 8b 07 49 89 fc 48 8b 5d 08 4c 8b a8 40 07 00 6
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000457d40 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 0000000000000038 RBX: ffffffff812e68fb RCX: 000000000000000c
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 000000000000137f RDI: ffff8880779c5468
RBP: ffffc90000457d78 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000001000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880779c5468
R13: ffff88807b726000 R14: ffff8880779ad9e8 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000614 CR3: 000000007a0dd000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
Call Trace:
 ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x8b/0x250 fs/ext4/extents.c:4991
 ext4_end_io fs/ext4/page-io.c:152 [inline]
 ext4_do_flush_completed_IO fs/ext4/page-io.c:226 [inline]
 ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0x11a/0x1f0 fs/ext4/page-io.c:240
 process_one_work+0x227/0x5b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2269
 worker_thread+0x4b/0x3c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2415
 kthread+0x125/0x140 kernel/kthread.c:255
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
CR2: 0000000000000614
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