On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:46:44PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:
> Don't pass error pointers to brelse().
>
> commit 7159a986b420 ("ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences") has fixed
> some cases, fix the remaining one case.
>
> Once ext4_xattr_block_find()->ext4_sb_bread() failed, error pointer is
> stored in @bs->bh, which will be passed to brelse() in the cleanup
> routine of ext4_xattr_set_handle(). This will then cause a NULL panic
> crash in __brelse().
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005b
> RIP: 0010:__brelse+0x1b/0x50
> Call Trace:
> ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x163/0x5d0
> ext4_xattr_set+0x95/0x110
> __vfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x80
> __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x68/0x1b0
> vfs_setxattr+0xa0/0xb0
> setxattr+0x12c/0x1a0
> path_setxattr+0x8d/0xc0
> __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
> do_syscall_64+0x60/0x250
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> In this case, @bs->bh stores '-EIO' actually.
>
> Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.19
> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks.
- Ted
