[PATCH 1/2] ext3: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext3_abort

[Hidehiro Kawai]

Hi Vegard,

Vegard Nossum wrote:

> commit 2d7c820e56ce83b23daee9eb5343730fb309418e
> Author: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Oct 22 14:15:01 2008 -0700
> 
>     ext3: add checks for errors from jbd
> 
> introduces a regression which was discovered by kmemcheck:

Thank you for reporting this regression.  It's my fault.
I send patches to fix.

Regards,


Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ext3: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext3_abort

Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory.  When
journal has been aborted, ext3_put_super() calls ext3_abort() after
freeing the journal_t object, and then ext3_abort() accesses it.
This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext3/super.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext3/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28-rc2.orig/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ void ext3_abort (struct super_block * sb
 	EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT3_ERROR_FS;
 	sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
 	EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt |= EXT3_MOUNT_ABORT;
-	journal_abort(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
+	if (EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal)
+		journal_abort(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
 }
 
 void ext3_warning (struct super_block * sb, const char * function,
@@ -390,11 +391,14 @@ static void ext3_put_super (struct super
 {
 	struct ext3_sb_info *sbi = EXT3_SB(sb);
 	struct ext3_super_block *es = sbi->s_es;
-	int i;
+	int i, err;
 
 	ext3_xattr_put_super(sb);
-	if (journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal) < 0)
+	err = journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
+	sbi->s_journal = NULL;
+	if (err < 0)
 		ext3_abort(sb, __func__, "Couldn't clean up the journal");
+
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 		es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);


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