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Message-ID: <20080304191140.GE24335@duck.suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:11:40 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fsync_buffers_list()
Fix NULL pointer dereference in fsync_buffers_list() introduced by recent fix
of races in private_list handling. Since bh->b_assoc_map has been cleared in
__remove_assoc_queue() we should really use original value stored in the
'mapping' variable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
Hmm, somehow testing of private_list handling patch on ext2 never hit the code path with
the bug :(. UDF did... Please push to Linus. Thanks.
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 897cd74..ddfdd2c 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ static int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *list)
smp_mb();
if (buffer_dirty(bh)) {
list_add(&bh->b_assoc_buffers,
- &bh->b_assoc_map->private_list);
+ &mapping->private_list);
bh->b_assoc_map = mapping;
}
spin_unlock(lock);
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