This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers
to the 3.16-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:
ext4-propagate-errors-up-to-ext4_find_entry-s-callers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 36de928641ee48b2078d3fe9514242aaa2f92013 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:47:19 -0400
Subject: ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 36de928641ee48b2078d3fe9514242aaa2f92013 upstream.
If we run into some kind of error, such as ENOMEM, while calling
ext4_getblk() or ext4_dx_find_entry(), we need to make sure this error
gets propagated up to ext4_find_entry() and then to its callers. This
way, transient errors such as ENOMEM can get propagated to the VFS.
This is important so that the system calls return the appropriate
error, and also so that in the case of ext4_lookup(), we return an
error instead of a NULL inode, since that will result in a negative
dentry cache entry that will stick around long past the OOM condition
which caused a transient ENOMEM error.
Google-Bug-Id: #17142205
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 +-
fs/ext4/namei.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ ext4_group_first_block_no(struct super_b
/*
* Special error return code only used by dx_probe() and its callers.
*/
-#define ERR_BAD_DX_DIR -75000
+#define ERR_BAD_DX_DIR (-(MAX_ERRNO - 1))
/*
* Timeout and state flag for lazy initialization inode thread.
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static struct buffer_head * ext4_find_en
buffer */
int num = 0;
ext4_lblk_t nblocks;
- int i, err;
+ int i, err = 0;
int namelen;
*res_dir = NULL;
@@ -1264,7 +1264,11 @@ static struct buffer_head * ext4_find_en
* return. Otherwise, fall back to doing a search the
* old fashioned way.
*/
- if (bh || (err != ERR_BAD_DX_DIR))
+ if (err == -ENOENT)
+ return NULL;
+ if (err && err != ERR_BAD_DX_DIR)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ if (bh)
return bh;
dxtrace(printk(KERN_DEBUG "ext4_find_entry: dx failed, "
"falling back\n"));
@@ -1295,6 +1299,11 @@ restart:
}
num++;
bh = ext4_getblk(NULL, dir, b++, 0, &err);
+ if (unlikely(err)) {
+ if (ra_max == 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ break;
+ }
bh_use[ra_max] = bh;
if (bh)
ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO,
@@ -1417,6 +1426,8 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(bh))
+ return (struct dentry *) bh;
inode = NULL;
if (bh) {
__u32 ino = le32_to_cpu(de->inode);
@@ -1450,6 +1461,8 @@ struct dentry *ext4_get_parent(struct de
struct buffer_head *bh;
bh = ext4_find_entry(child->d_inode, &dotdot, &de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(bh))
+ return (struct dentry *) bh;
if (!bh)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
ino = le32_to_cpu(de->inode);
@@ -2727,6 +2740,8 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir,
retval = -ENOENT;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(bh);
if (!bh)
goto end_rmdir;
@@ -2794,6 +2809,8 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir
retval = -ENOENT;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(bh);
if (!bh)
goto end_unlink;
@@ -3121,6 +3138,8 @@ static int ext4_find_delete_entry(handle
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, d_name, &de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(bh);
if (bh) {
retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
brelse(bh);
@@ -3205,6 +3224,8 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old
dquot_initialize(new.inode);
old.bh = ext4_find_entry(old.dir, &old.dentry->d_name, &old.de, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(old.bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(old.bh);
/*
* Check for inode number is _not_ due to possible IO errors.
* We might rmdir the source, keep it as pwd of some process
@@ -3217,6 +3238,10 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old
new.bh = ext4_find_entry(new.dir, &new.dentry->d_name,
&new.de, &new.inlined);
+ if (IS_ERR(new.bh)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(new.bh);
+ goto end_rename;
+ }
if (new.bh) {
if (!new.inode) {
brelse(new.bh);
@@ -3345,6 +3370,8 @@ static int ext4_cross_rename(struct inod
old.bh = ext4_find_entry(old.dir, &old.dentry->d_name,
&old.de, &old.inlined);
+ if (IS_ERR(old.bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(old.bh);
/*
* Check for inode number is _not_ due to possible IO errors.
* We might rmdir the source, keep it as pwd of some process
@@ -3357,6 +3384,10 @@ static int ext4_cross_rename(struct inod
new.bh = ext4_find_entry(new.dir, &new.dentry->d_name,
&new.de, &new.inlined);
+ if (IS_ERR(new.bh)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(new.bh);
+ goto end_rename;
+ }
/* RENAME_EXCHANGE case: old *and* new must both exist */
if (!new.bh || le32_to_cpu(new.de->inode) != new.inode->i_ino)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/ext4-avoid-trying-to-kfree-an-err_ptr-pointer.patch
queue-3.16/ext4-propagate-errors-up-to-ext4_find_entry-s-callers.patch
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