[XFS] Fix double free of log tickets

When an I/O error occurs during an intermediate commit on a rolling
transaction, xfs_trans_commit() will free the transaction structure
and the related ticket. However, the duplicate transaction that
gets used as the transaction continues still contains a pointer
to the ticket. Hence when the duplicate transaction is cancelled
and freed, we free the ticket a second time.

Add reference counting to the ticket so that we hold an extra
reference to the ticket over the transaction commit. We drop the
extra reference once we have checked that the transaction commit
did not return an error, thus avoiding a double free on commit
error.

Credit to Nick Piggin for tripping over the problem.

SGI-PV: 989741

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_utils.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_utils.c
index 35d4d414bcc2..771144932ab4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_utils.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_utils.c
@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ xfs_dir_ialloc(
                         *ipp = NULL;
                         return code;
                 }
+
+                /*
+                 * transaction commit worked ok so we can drop the extra ticket
+                 * reference that we gained in xfs_trans_dup()
+                 */
+                xfs_log_ticket_put(tp->t_ticket);
                 code = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, log_res, 0,
                                          XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES, log_count);
                 /*