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jbd: fix race in buffer processing in commit code
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 23:26:26 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:31:33 +0000 (16:31 -0700)
commitc66a1c990f0f9ec38765ca5c54953523326e18d5
treea15202efa793f22b679f7c2f298f48eec1b95bce
parent18223acf5db925a001db7f6087eaacf0007235d0
jbd: fix race in buffer processing in commit code

commit a61d90d75d0f9e86432c45b496b4b0fbf0fd03dc upstream.

In commit code, we scan buffers attached to a transaction.  During this
scan, we sometimes have to drop j_list_lock and then we recheck whether
the journal buffer head didn't get freed by journal_try_to_free_buffers().
 But checking for buffer_jbd(bh) isn't enough because a new journal head
could get attached to our buffer head.  So add a check whether the journal
head remained the same and whether it's still at the same transaction and
list.

This is a nasty bug and can cause problems like memory corruption (use after
free) or trigger various assertions in JBD code (observed).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/jbd/commit.c