On Tue, 31 May 2011, Lukas Czerner wrote:

> We need to take reference to the s_li_request after we take a mutex,
> because it might be freed since then, hence result in accessing old
> already freed memory. Also we should protect the whole
> ext4_remove_li_request() because ext4_li_info might be in the process of
> being freed in ext4_lazyinit_thread().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/super.c |   10 ++++++----
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index fd51a4a..ed5e80e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -2735,14 +2735,16 @@ static void ext4_remove_li_request(struct 
> ext4_li_request *elr)
>  
>  static void ext4_unregister_li_request(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
> -     struct ext4_li_request *elr = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_li_request;
> -
> -     if (!ext4_li_info)
> +     mutex_lock(&ext4_li_mtx);
> +     if (!ext4_li_info) {
> +             mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_mtx);
>               return;
> +     }
>  
>       mutex_lock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
> -     ext4_remove_li_request(elr);
> +     ext4_remove_li_request(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_li_request);
>       mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
> +     mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_mtx);
>  }
>  
>  static struct task_struct *ext4_lazyinit_task;
> 


This is upstream commit 1bb933fb1fa8e4cb337a0d5dfd2ff4c0dc2073e8

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