Re: [PATCH] ext4: unregister extents status shrinker if mount failed

From: Zheng Liu
Date: Fri Apr 19 2013 - 18:27:00 EST


On 04/20/2013 06:05 AM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> If ext4_fill_super() failed after extents status shrinker
> has been registered, the shrinker is left in a global list
> while the memory, it sits in, is already freed.
> Oops is not so bad scenario after that.
>
> Found by Linux File System Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch. This problem has been fixed in dev branch of
ext4 tree, but has not push into mainline kernel yet. Here is the
commit id (a75ae78f087f933ab3432e98bb4dbbf2196cf6d5).

Thanks,
- Zheng

> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 5d6d5357..5f9cb30 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -3757,7 +3757,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_MMP) &&
> !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
> if (ext4_multi_mount_protect(sb, le64_to_cpu(es->s_mmp_block)))
> - goto failed_mount3;
> + goto failed_mount_shr;
>
> /*
> * The first inode we look at is the journal inode. Don't try
> @@ -3766,7 +3766,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> if (!test_opt(sb, NOLOAD) &&
> EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL)) {
> if (ext4_load_journal(sb, es, journal_devnum))
> - goto failed_mount3;
> + goto failed_mount_shr;
> } else if (test_opt(sb, NOLOAD) && !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) &&
> EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER)) {
> ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "required journal recovery "
> @@ -4009,6 +4009,8 @@ failed_mount_wq:
> jbd2_journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
> sbi->s_journal = NULL;
> }
> +failed_mount_shr:
> + ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(sb);
> failed_mount3:
> del_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
> if (sbi->s_flex_groups)
>

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