This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block()
to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nilfs2-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-nilfs_load_super_block.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d7178c79d9b7c5518f9943188091a75fc6ce0675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:08:39 -0700
Subject: nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block()
From: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
commit d7178c79d9b7c5518f9943188091a75fc6ce0675 upstream.
According to the report from Slicky Devil, nilfs caused kernel oops at
nilfs_load_super_block function during mount after he shrank the
partition without resizing the filesystem:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000048
IP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2]
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<d0d7a87b>] init_nilfs+0x4b/0x2e0 [nilfs2]
[<d0d6f707>] nilfs_mount+0x447/0x5b0 [nilfs2]
[<c0226636>] mount_fs+0x36/0x180
[<c023d961>] vfs_kern_mount+0x51/0xa0
[<c023ddae>] do_kern_mount+0x3e/0xe0
[<c023f189>] do_mount+0x169/0x700
[<c023fa9b>] sys_mount+0x6b/0xa0
[<c04abd1f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Code: 53 18 8b 43 20 89 4b 18 8b 4b 24 89 53 1c 89 43 24 89 4b 20 8b 43
20 c7 43 2c 00 00 00 00 23 75 e8 8b 50 68 89 53 28 8b 54 b3 20 <8b> 72
48 8b 7a 4c 8b 55 08 89 b3 84 00 00 00 89 bb 88 00 00 00
EIP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] SS:ESP
0068:ca9bbdcc
CR2: 0000000000000048
This turned out due to a defect in an error path which runs if the
calculated location of the secondary super block was invalid.
This patch fixes it and eliminates the reported oops.
Reported-by: Slicky Devil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Slicky Devil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static int nilfs_load_super_block(struct
brelse(sbh[1]);
sbh[1] = NULL;
sbp[1] = NULL;
+ valid[1] = 0;
swp = 0;
}
if (!valid[swp]) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.2/nilfs2-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-nilfs_load_super_block.patch
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