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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Fix use after free in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 18:05:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181004160546.GH28384@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181004154402.GC6921@kroah.com>

On Thu 04-10-18 08:44:02, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 12:46:40PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > The code cleaning transaction's lists of checkpoint buffers has a bug
> > where it increases bh refcount only after releasing
> > journal->j_list_lock. Thus the following race is possible:
> > 
> > CPU0					CPU1
> > jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
> > 					jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
> > 					  __journal_try_to_free_buffer(bh)
> >   ...
> >   while (transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list)
> >   ...
> >     if (buffer_locked(bh)) {
> > 
> > <-- IO completes now, buffer gets unlocked -->
> > 
> >       spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > 					    spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > 					    __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh);
> > 					    spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > 					  try_to_free_buffers(page);
> >       get_bh(bh) <-- accesses freed bh
> > 
> > Fix the problem by grabbing bh reference before unlocking
> > journal->j_list_lock.
> > 
> > Fixes: dc6e8d669cf5cb3ff84707c372c0a2a8a5e80845
> > Fixes: be1158cc615fd723552f0d9912087423c7cadda5
> 
> Nit, this normally looks like:
> 
> Fixes: dc6e8d669cf5 ("jbd2: don't call get_bh() before calling __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint()")
> 
> And this is created by:
> 	git show -s --abbrev-commit --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"%h (\"%s\")%n"

OK, ok, will do next time. The full git commit ID is faster to cut-n-paste
which shows how lazy I'm ;) 

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-04 10:46 [PATCH] jbd2: Fix use after free in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() Jan Kara
2018-10-04 11:50 ` Lukas Czerner
2018-10-04 12:30   ` Jan Kara
2018-10-04 15:44 ` Greg KH
2018-10-04 16:05   ` Jan Kara [this message]
2018-10-04 16:33     ` Lukas Czerner
2018-10-04 21:22     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-05  9:18       ` Jan Kara
2018-10-05 22:57 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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