From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
===============
commit 92e3b40537707001d17bbad800d150ab04e53bf4 upstream.
If start_this_handle() fails then it leads to a use after free of
"handle".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index b0b74e58697b..7272cc6977ec 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -514,11 +514,13 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_reserved(handle_t *handle, unsigned int type,
* similarly constrained call sites
*/
ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, GFP_NOFS);
- if (ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0) {
jbd2_journal_free_reserved(handle);
+ return ret;
+ }
handle->h_type = type;
handle->h_line_no = line_no;
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_journal_start_reserved);
--
1.9.0
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