This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btree: fix tree corruption in btree_get_prev()
to the 3.0-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: btree-fix-tree-corruption-in-btree_get_prev.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From cbf8ae32f66a9ceb8907ad9e16663c2a29e48990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier <rol...@purestorage.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:21:13 -0700 Subject: btree: fix tree corruption in btree_get_prev() From: Roland Dreier <rol...@purestorage.com> commit cbf8ae32f66a9ceb8907ad9e16663c2a29e48990 upstream. The memory the parameter __key points to is used as an iterator in btree_get_prev(), so if we save off a bkey() pointer in retry_key and then assign that to __key, we'll end up corrupting the btree internals when we do eg longcpy(__key, bkey(geo, node, i), geo->keylen); to return the key value. What we should do instead is use longcpy() to copy the key value that retry_key points to __key. This can cause a btree to get corrupted by seemingly read-only operations such as btree_for_each_safe. [a...@linux-foundation.org: avoid the double longcpy()] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rol...@purestorage.com> Acked-by: Joern Engel <jo...@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- lib/btree.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/btree.c +++ b/lib/btree.c @@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ void *btree_get_prev(struct btree_head * if (head->height == 0) return NULL; -retry: longcpy(key, __key, geo->keylen); +retry: dec_key(geo, key); node = head->node; @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ retry: } miss: if (retry_key) { - __key = retry_key; + longcpy(key, retry_key, geo->keylen); retry_key = NULL; goto retry; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rol...@purestorage.com are queue-3.0/btree-fix-tree-corruption-in-btree_get_prev.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html