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author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2009-02-10 11:15:34 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-02-10 11:15:34 -0500 |
commit | 7f5aa215088b817add9c71914b83650bdd49f8a9 (patch) | |
tree | 9b811d1f0b41a2738fc68654ae605bf5d8cf2a72 /crypto/xor.c | |
parent | 9eddacf9e9c03578ef2c07c9534423e823d677f8 (diff) |
jbd2: Avoid possible NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate()
If we race with commit code setting i_transaction to NULL, we could
possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer
(to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to
change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the
journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the
function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and
how it should be used.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> for pointing to the
suspitious code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: mfasheh@suse.de
CC: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/xor.c')
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