This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled FS: JFS: Check for read-only mounted filesystem in txBegin to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-jfs-check-for-read-only-mounted-filesystem-in-txb.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bc22fdbbae03d7a4ecf10c426b62662ac8f747bf Author: Immad Mir <mirimmad17@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jun 23 19:17:08 2023 +0530 FS: JFS: Check for read-only mounted filesystem in txBegin [ Upstream commit 95e2b352c03b0a86c5717ba1d24ea20969abcacc ] This patch adds a check for read-only mounted filesystem in txBegin before starting a transaction potentially saving from NULL pointer deref. Signed-off-by: Immad Mir <mirimmad17@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c index c8ce7f1bc5942..6f6a5b9203d3f 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c +++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c @@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ tid_t txBegin(struct super_block *sb, int flag) jfs_info("txBegin: flag = 0x%x", flag); log = JFS_SBI(sb)->log; + if (!log) { + jfs_error(sb, "read-only filesystem\n"); + return 0; + } + TXN_LOCK(); INCREMENT(TxStat.txBegin);