This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts concurrently
to the 3.5-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:
ext4-fix-crash-when-accessing-proc-mounts-concurrently.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 50df9fd55e4271e89a7adf3b1172083dd0ca199d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:49:12 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts concurrently
From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
commit 50df9fd55e4271e89a7adf3b1172083dd0ca199d upstream.
The crash was caused by a variable being erronously declared static in
token2str().
In addition to /proc/mounts, the problem can also be easily replicated
by accessing /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options in parallel:
$ cat /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options > options.txt
... and then running the following command in two different terminals:
$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done
This is also the cause of the following a crash while running xfstests
#234, as reported in the following bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47731
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Brad Figg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ static inline void ext4_show_quota_optio
static const char *token2str(int token)
{
- static const struct match_token *t;
+ const struct match_token *t;
for (t = tokens; t->token != Opt_err; t++)
if (t->token == token && !strchr(t->pattern, '='))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.5/ext4-fix-crash-when-accessing-proc-mounts-concurrently.patch
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