Re: [Patch] ext4: avoid null dereference

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 16:49 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> ac->inode is set to null in function ext4_mb_release_group_pa(),
> and then trace_ext4_mballoc_discard(ac) is called, the kernel
> will panic.

> diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> index 01e9e00..6a1fcff 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> @@ -796,8 +796,9 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ext4__mballoc,
>  	),
>  
>  	TP_fast_assign(
> -		__entry->dev		= ac->ac_inode->i_sb->s_dev;
> -		__entry->ino		= ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
> +		__entry->dev		= ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
> +		__entry->ino		= ac->ac_inode ?
> +						ac->ac_inode->i_ino : 0;

Is i_ino == 0 a valid inode number?

If not, then

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

>  		__entry->result_logical	= ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical;
>  		__entry->result_start	= ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start;
>  		__entry->result_group	= ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group;


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