Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy: fix

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 28 2014 - 18:43:14 EST


On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:38:31 +0100 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> mutex_destroy was also called when trying to mount volume in read/write
> without write support enabled.
>
> --- a/fs/ufs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ufs/super.c
> @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static int ufs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
> printk("ufs was compiled with read-only support, "
> "can't be mounted as read-write\n");
> - goto failed;
> + goto failed_noreadwrite;
> }
> #endif
> mutex_init(&sbi->mutex);
> @@ -1255,10 +1255,14 @@ magic_found:
> return 0;
>
> failed:
> + mutex_destroy(&sbi->mutex);
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE
> +failed_noreadwrite:
> +#endif
> if (ubh)
> ubh_brelse_uspi (uspi);
> kfree (uspi);
> - mutex_destroy(&sbi->mutex);
> kfree(sbi);
> sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
> UFSD("EXIT (FAILED)\n");

Ugly. Wht don't we perform the check before we've allocated anything
so we can simply return?

And it should return -EROFS, not -EINVAL.

--- a/fs/ufs/super.c~ufs-sb-mutex-merge-mutex_destroy-fix-v2-fix
+++ a/fs/ufs/super.c
@@ -785,6 +785,14 @@ static int ufs_fill_super(struct super_b
flags = 0;

UFSD("ENTER\n");
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE
+ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+ printk("ufs was compiled with read-only support, "
+ "can't be mounted as read-write\n");
+ return -EROFS;
+ }
+#endif

sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ufs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sbi)
@@ -794,13 +802,6 @@ static int ufs_fill_super(struct super_b

UFSD("flag %u\n", (int)(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY));

-#ifndef CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE
- if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
- printk("ufs was compiled with read-only support, "
- "can't be mounted as read-write\n");
- goto failed_noreadwrite;
- }
-#endif
mutex_init(&sbi->mutex);
spin_lock_init(&sbi->work_lock);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sbi->sync_work, delayed_sync_fs);
@@ -1256,10 +1257,6 @@ magic_found:

failed:
mutex_destroy(&sbi->mutex);
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE
-failed_noreadwrite:
-#endif
if (ubh)
ubh_brelse_uspi (uspi);
kfree (uspi);
_

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