linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove static from struct match

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Message-ID: <20120924025935.GA27627@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:59:35 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove static from struct match_token used in
 token2str

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:21:00PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> There is no reason to use static there, and it will cause issues when
> reading /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options concurrently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 3.4+

Herton,

Thanks for finding the bug fix!  I changed the commit descipription
slightly and have applied your patch to the ext4 tree.

	     	  	       	     	    - Ted

ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts concurrently

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>

The crash was caused by a variable being erronously declared static in
token2str().

In addition to /proc/mounts, the problem can also be easily replicated
by accessing /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options in parallel:

$ cat /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options > options.txt

... and then running the following command in two different terminals:

$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done

This is also the cause of the following a crash while running xfstests
#234, as reported in the following bug reports:

	https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019
	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47731

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Brad Figg <brad.figg@...onical.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
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