[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 13/16] GFS2: Fixing double brelse'ing bh allocated in gfs2_meta_read when EIO occurs

[Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>

This patch fixes buffer_head double free in following code path:

gfs2_block_map
=> gfs2_meta_inode_buffer
 => gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer
  => gfs2_meta_read
=> release_metapath

gfs2_block_map calls gfs2_meta_inode_buffer with &mp.mp_bh[0]
as an argument. mp.mp_bh are filled with zero at the beginning
of gfs2_block_map.

If gfs2_meta_inode_buffer returns non-zero value, gfs2_block_map
calls release_metapath to free buffers chained to mp.mp_bh.
release_metapath checks each slot of mp.mp_bh[i] and
free(with brelse) unless the slot is filled with NULL.

&mp.mp_bh[0] passed to gfs2_meta_inode_buffer is filled at
gfs2_meta_read. gfs2_meta_read is filled a buffer allocated with
gfs2_getbuf even if EIO occurs. When EIO occurs, the allocated buffer
is brelse'ed though the pointer(wrong poiner) points the brelse'ed is
passed back to caller via an argument bhp.

gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer, the caller also pass the wrong pointer
to its caller with EIO. Finally gfs2_block_map gets both EIO and
&mp.mp_bh[0] filled with the wrong pointer. release_metapath
calls brelse again on the wrong pointer.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 6c1e5d1..3a56c8d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -213,8 +213,10 @@ int gfs2_meta_read(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 blkno, int flags,
 	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = gl->gl_sbd;
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
 
-	if (unlikely(test_bit(SDF_SHUTDOWN, &sdp->sd_flags)))
+	if (unlikely(test_bit(SDF_SHUTDOWN, &sdp->sd_flags))) {
+		*bhp = NULL;
 		return -EIO;
+	}
 
 	*bhp = bh = gfs2_getbuf(gl, blkno, CREATE);
 
@@ -235,6 +237,7 @@ int gfs2_meta_read(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 blkno, int flags,
 		if (tr && tr->tr_touched)
 			gfs2_io_error_bh(sdp, bh);
 		brelse(bh);
+		*bhp = NULL;
 		return -EIO;
 	}
 
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1.7.4