On Wed 18-04-18 11:49:46, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > If ext4 tries to start a reserved handle via > jbd2_journal_start_reserved(), and the journal has been aborted, this > can result in a NULL pointer dereference. This is because the fields > h_journal and h_transaction in the handle structure share the same > meory, via a union, so jbd2_journal_start_reserved() will clear > h_journal before calling start_this_handle(). If this function fails > due to an aborted handle, h_journal will still be NULL, and the call > to jbd2_journal_free_reserved() will pass a NULL journal to > sub_reserve_credits(). > > This can be reproduced by running "kvm-xfstests -c dioread_nolock > generic/475". > > Fixes: 8f7d89f36829b ("jbd2: transaction reservation support") > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 3.11 Thanks for fixing this! The patch looks good to me. You can add: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza > --- > fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c > index ac311037d7a5..8aa453784402 100644 > --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c > +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c > @@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_reserved(handle_t *handle, unsigned int type, > */ > ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, GFP_NOFS); > if (ret < 0) { > + handle->h_journal = journal; > jbd2_journal_free_reserved(handle); > return ret; > } > -- > 2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9a > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR