The code cleaning transaction's lists of checkpoint buffers has a bug where it increases bh refcount only after releasing journal->j_list_lock. Thus the following race is possible: CPU0 CPU1 jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() __journal_try_to_free_buffer(bh) ... while (transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list) ... if (buffer_locked(bh)) { <-- IO completes now, buffer gets unlocked --> spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh); spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); try_to_free_buffers(page); get_bh(bh) <-- accesses freed bh Fix the problem by grabbing bh reference before unlocking journal->j_list_lock. Fixes: dc6e8d669cf5cb3ff84707c372c0a2a8a5e80845 Fixes: be1158cc615fd723552f0d9912087423c7cadda5 Reported-by: syzbot+7f4a27091759e2fe7453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c index c125d662777c..26f8d7e46462 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c @@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal) bh = jh2bh(jh); if (buffer_locked(bh)) { - spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); get_bh(bh); + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); wait_on_buffer(bh); /* the journal_head may have gone by now */ BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "brelse"); @@ -333,8 +333,8 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal) jh = transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list; bh = jh2bh(jh); if (buffer_locked(bh)) { - spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); get_bh(bh); + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); wait_on_buffer(bh); /* the journal_head may have gone by now */ BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "brelse"); -- 2.16.4