2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Tao Ma <[email protected]> commit 46e4690bbd9a4f8d9e7c4f34e34b48f703ad47e0 upstream. In ext4_register_li_request, we malloc a ext4_li_request and inserts it into ext4_li_info->li_request_list. In case of any error later, we free it in the end. But if we have some error in ext4_run_lazyinit_thread, the whole li_request_list will be dropped and freed in it. So we will double free this ext4_li_request. This patch just sets elr to NULL after it is inserted to the list so that the latter kfree won't double free it. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2978,6 +2978,12 @@ static int ext4_register_li_request(stru mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx); sbi->s_li_request = elr; + /* + * set elr to NULL here since it has been inserted to + * the request_list and the removal and free of it is + * handled by ext4_clear_request_list from now on. + */ + elr = NULL; if (!(ext4_li_info->li_state & EXT4_LAZYINIT_RUNNING)) { ret = ext4_run_lazyinit_thread(); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
