[PATCH] fix NULL pointer dereference in xfs_log_force_umount

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Fri Nov 21 12:23:05 CST 2008


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> xfs_log_force_umount may be called very early during log recovery where
> 
> If we fail a buffer read in xlog_recover_do_inode_trans we abort the mount.
> But at that point log recovery has started delayed writeback of inode
> buffers.   As part of the aborted mount we try to flush out all delwri
> buffers, but at that point we have already freed the superblock, and set
> mp->m_sb_bp to NULL, and xfs_log_force_umount which gets called after
> the inode buffer writeback trips over it.
> 
> Make xfs_log_force_umounr a little more careful when accessing mp->m_sb_bp
> to avoid this.

Seems fine (btw:  s/unmounr/unmount/)  ;)

-eric

> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Index: xfs-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c	2008-11-21 17:07:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ xfs-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c	2008-11-21 17:13:02.000000000 +0100
> @@ -3525,7 +3525,8 @@ xfs_log_force_umount(
>  	if (!log ||
>  	    log->l_flags & XLOG_ACTIVE_RECOVERY) {
>  		mp->m_flags |= XFS_MOUNT_FS_SHUTDOWN;
> -		XFS_BUF_DONE(mp->m_sb_bp);
> +		if (mp->m_sb_bp)
> +			XFS_BUF_DONE(mp->m_sb_bp);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -3546,7 +3547,9 @@ xfs_log_force_umount(
>  	spin_lock(&log->l_icloglock);
>  	spin_lock(&log->l_grant_lock);
>  	mp->m_flags |= XFS_MOUNT_FS_SHUTDOWN;
> -	XFS_BUF_DONE(mp->m_sb_bp);
> +	if (mp->m_sb_bp)
> +		XFS_BUF_DONE(mp->m_sb_bp);
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * This flag is sort of redundant because of the mount flag, but
>  	 * it's good to maintain the separation between the log and the rest
> 
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