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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2009-02-10 11:15:34 -0500
committerTheodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>2009-02-10 11:15:34 -0500
commit7f5aa215088b817add9c71914b83650bdd49f8a9 (patch)
tree9b811d1f0b41a2738fc68654ae605bf5d8cf2a72 /fs/ext4/ext4.h
parent9eddacf9e9c03578ef2c07c9534423e823d677f8 (diff)
jbd2: Avoid possible NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate()
If we race with commit code setting i_transaction to NULL, we could possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer (to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and how it should be used. Thanks to Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> for pointing to the suspitious code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com CC: mfasheh@suse.de CC: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
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