The patch titled ext3: handle deleting corrupted indirect blocks has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: handle deleting corrupted indirect blocks From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> While freeing indirect blocks we attach a journal head to the parent buffer head, free the blocks, then journal the parent. If the indirect block list is corrupted and points to the parent the journal head will be detached when the block is cleared, causing an OOPS. Check for that explicitly and handle it gracefully. This patch fixes the third case (image hdb.20000057.nullderef.gz) reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10882. Immediately above the change, in the ext3_free_data function, we call ext3_clear_blocks to clear the indirect blocks in this parent block. If one of those blocks happens to actually be the parent block it will clear b_private / BH_JBD. I did the check at the end rather than earlier as it seemed more elegant. I don't think there should be much practical difference, although it is possible the FS may not be quite so badly corrupted if we did it the other way (and didn't clear the block at all). To be honest, I'm not convinced there aren't other similar failure modes lurking in this code, although I couldn't find any with a quick review. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/inode.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks fs/ext3/inode.c --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks +++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -2130,7 +2130,20 @@ static void ext3_free_data(handle_t *han if (this_bh) { BUFFER_TRACE(this_bh, "call ext3_journal_dirty_metadata"); - ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, this_bh); + + /* + * The buffer head should have an attached journal head at this + * point. However, if the data is corrupted and an indirect + * block pointed to itself, it would have been detached when + * the block was cleared. Check for this instead of OOPSing. + */ + if (bh2jh(this_bh)) + ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, this_bh); + else + ext3_error(inode->i_sb, "ext3_free_data", + "circular indirect block detected, " + "inode=%lu, block="E3FSBLK, + inode->i_ino, this_bh->b_blocknr); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from duaneg@xxxxxxxxx are jbd-replace-potentially-false-assertion-with-if-block.patch jbd-eliminate-duplicated-code-in-revocation-table-init-destroy-functions.patch jbd-tidy-up-revoke-cache-initialisation-and-destruction.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-fix.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup-fix.patch ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html