This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Fix an uninitialised pointer Oops in the writeback error path
to the 3.17-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:
nfs-fix-an-uninitialised-pointer-oops-in-the-writeback-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3caa0c6ed754d91b15266abf222498edbef982bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:26:43 -0400
Subject: NFS: Fix an uninitialised pointer Oops in the writeback error path
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3caa0c6ed754d91b15266abf222498edbef982bd upstream.
SteveD reports the following Oops:
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa053461d>] [<ffffffffa053461d>] __put_nfs_open_context+0x1d/0x100 [nfs]
RSP: 0018:ffff880fed687b90 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000024 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff880fed687bc0 R08: 0000000000000092 R09: 000000000000047a
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff880fed6878d6 R12: ffff880fed687d20
R13: ffff880fed687d20 R14: 0000000000000070 R15: ffffea000aa33ec0
FS: 00007fce290f0740(0000) GS:ffff8807ffc60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 00000007f2e79000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
0000000000000000 ffff880036c5e510 ffff880fed687d20 ffff880fed687d20
ffff880036c5e200 ffffea000aa33ec0 ffff880fed687bd0 ffffffffa0534710
ffff880fed687be8 ffffffffa053d5f0 ffff880036c5e200 ffff880fed687c08
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0534710>] put_nfs_open_context+0x10/0x20 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053d5f0>] nfs_pgio_data_destroy+0x20/0x40 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053d672>] nfs_pgio_error+0x22/0x40 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053d8f4>] nfs_generic_pgio+0x74/0x2e0 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa06b18c3>] pnfs_generic_pg_writepages+0x63/0x210 [nfsv4]
[<ffffffffa053d579>] nfs_pageio_doio+0x19/0x50 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053eb84>] nfs_pageio_complete+0x24/0x30 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053cb25>] nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec+0x115/0x1f0 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053675f>] ? nfs_get_lock_context+0x4f/0x120 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa053d252>] nfs_file_direct_write+0x262/0x420 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa0532d91>] nfs_file_write+0x131/0x1d0 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa0532c60>] ? nfs_need_sync_write.isra.17+0x40/0x40 [nfs]
[<ffffffff812127b8>] do_io_submit+0x3b8/0x840
[<ffffffff81212c50>] SyS_io_submit+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffff81610f29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This is due to the calls to nfs_pgio_error() in nfs_generic_pgio(), which
happen before the nfs_pgio_header's open context is referenced in
nfs_pgio_rpcsetup().
Reported-by: Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -518,7 +518,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_pgio_header_free);
*/
void nfs_pgio_data_destroy(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr)
{
- put_nfs_open_context(hdr->args.context);
+ if (hdr->args.context)
+ put_nfs_open_context(hdr->args.context);
if (hdr->page_array.pagevec != hdr->page_array.page_array)
kfree(hdr->page_array.pagevec);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/nfsv4.1-pnfs-replace-broken-pnfs_put_lseg_async.patch
queue-3.17/nfs-fix-an-uninitialised-pointer-oops-in-the-writeback-error-path.patch
queue-3.17/nfs-fix-duplicate-proc-entries.patch
queue-3.17/fixing-lease-renewal.patch
queue-3.17/nfsv4-fix-lock-recovery-when-create_session-setclientid_confirm-fails.patch
queue-3.17/nfsv4.1-fix-an-nfsv4.1-state-renewal-regression.patch
queue-3.17/nfs-fix-a-bogus-warning-in-nfs_generic_pgio.patch
queue-3.17/nfsv4-fix-open-lock-state-recovery-error-handling.patch
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