[PATCH] xfs_repair: avoid segfault if reporting progress early in repair

Eric Sandeen
2013-10-17T17:50:25Z

For a very large filesystem, zeroing the log may take some time.

If we ask for progress reports frequently enough that one fires
before we finish with log zeroing, we try to use a progress format
which has not yet been set up, and segfault:

# mkfs.xfs -d size=60t,file,name=fsfile
# xfs_repair -m 9000 -o ag_stride=32 -t 1 fsfile
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
- reporting progress in intervals of 1 seconds
Phase 2 - using internal log
- zero log...
Segmentation fault

(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000426962 in progress_rpt_thread (p=0x67ad20) at progress.c:234
#1 0x0000003b98a07851 in start_thread (arg=0x7f19d8e47700) at pthread_create.c:301
#2 0x0000003b982e767d in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) p msgp
$1 = (msg_block_t *) 0x67ad20
(gdb) p msgp->format
$2 = (progress_rpt_t *) 0x0
(gdb)

I suppose we could rig up progress reports for log zeroing, but
that won't usually take terribly long; for now, be defensive
and init the message->format to NULL, and just return early
from the progress thread if we've not yet set up any message.

(Sure, global_msgs is global, and ->format is already NULL,
but to me it's worth being explicit since we will test it).

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/repair/progress.c b/repair/progress.c
index ab320dc..45a412e 100644
--- a/repair/progress.c
+++ b/repair/progress.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ init_progress_rpt (void)
*/

pthread_mutex_init(&global_msgs.mutex, NULL);
+ global_msgs.format = NULL;
global_msgs.count = glob_agcount;
global_msgs.interval = report_interval;
global_msgs.done = prog_rpt_done;
@@ -169,6 +170,10 @@ progress_rpt_thread (void *p)
msg_block_t *msgp = (msg_block_t *)p;
__uint64_t percent;

+ /* It's possible to get here very early w/ no progress msg set */
+ if (!msgp->format)
+ return NULL;
+
if ((msgbuf = (char *)malloc(DURATION_BUF_SIZE)) == NULL)
do_error (_("progress_rpt: cannot malloc progress msg buffer\n"));