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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: jack@suse.cz, markw@osdl.org, sct@redhat.com, mason@suse.com
Subject: [02/08] Prevent race condition in jbd
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405164628.GC17299@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405164539.GA17299@kroah.com>


-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------


This patch from Stephen Tweedie which fixes a race in jbd code (it
demonstrated itself as more or less random NULL dereferences in the
journal code).

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

--- linux-2.6-ext3/fs/jbd/transaction.c.=K0000=.orig
+++ linux-2.6-ext3/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1775,10 +1775,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 			JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "checkpointed: add to BJ_Forget");
 			ret = __dispose_buffer(jh,
 					journal->j_running_transaction);
+			journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 			spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 			jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 			spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-			journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 			return ret;
 		} else {
 			/* There is no currently-running transaction. So the
@@ -1789,10 +1789,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 				JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "give to committing trans");
 				ret = __dispose_buffer(jh,
 					journal->j_committing_transaction);
+				journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 				spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 				jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 				spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-				journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 				return ret;
 			} else {
 				/* The orphan record's transaction has
@@ -1813,10 +1813,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 					journal->j_running_transaction);
 			jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
 		}
+		journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 		spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 		jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 		return 0;
 	} else {
 		/* Good, the buffer belongs to the running transaction.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05 16:45 [00/11] -stable review Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:46 ` [01/08] Fix Oops with ALSA timer event notification Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:46   ` Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-05 16:46 ` [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:46   ` Greg KH
2005-04-05 20:27   ` David Mosberger
2005-04-05 20:27     ` David Mosberger
2005-04-05 20:49     ` Greg KH
2005-04-05 20:49       ` Greg KH
2005-04-05 21:01       ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-05 21:01         ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-05 23:46       ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-05 23:46         ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-06  0:05         ` Greg KH
2005-04-06  0:05           ` Greg KH
2005-04-06  0:48           ` Dave Jones
2005-04-06  0:48             ` Dave Jones
2005-04-06 22:43         ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-06 22:43           ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-05 16:47 ` [04/08] I2C: Fix oops in eeprom driver Greg KH
2005-05-19  6:25   ` Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:47 ` [05/08] [IPSEC]: Do not hold state lock while checking size Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:47 ` [06/08] rwsem fix Greg KH
2005-04-05 16:47 ` [07/08] [TCP] Fix BIC congestion avoidance algorithm error Greg KH
2005-04-05 18:22   ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-05 18:26     ` David S. Miller
2005-04-05 18:32       ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-04-05 16:48 ` [08/08] uml: va_copy fix Greg KH
2005-04-05 18:47   ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-05 18:53     ` Blaisorblade
2005-04-05 20:18       ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-06 11:32         ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 12:04           ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-06 12:27             ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 15:46               ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-04-06 17:29                 ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-06 17:33                   ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 17:58                     ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-06 18:13                       ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 19:13             ` Blaisorblade
2005-04-06 19:09         ` Blaisorblade
2005-04-06 19:30           ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-07  9:16           ` Renate Meijer
2005-04-07 18:25             ` Blaisorblade
2005-04-05 17:28 ` [00/11] -stable review Greg KH

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