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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use-after-free with log and quotas
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:43:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912084340.GA11098@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CA2B23.4020405@sgi.com>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:41:07PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> Destroying the quota stuff on unmount can access the log - ie XFS_QM_DONE()
> ends up in xfs_dqunlock() which calls xfs_trans_unlocked_item() and then
> xfs_log_move_tail().  By this time the log has already been destroyed.
> Just move the cleanup of the quota code earlier in xfs_unmountfs() before
> the call to xfs_log_unmount().  Moving XFS_QM_DONE() up near
> XFS_QM_DQPURGEALL() seems like a good spot.

Yeah, I have something like this in my large mount/unmount audit.

Looks good, and I have to rebase all the other changes anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12  8:41 [PATCH] Fix use-after-free with log and quotas Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-12  8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-13  4:02 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-15  2:40   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-16  4:08     ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-16  6:36       ` Lachlan McIlroy

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