ext4: unregister sysfs path before destroying jbd2 journal
authorRitesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:13:01 +0000 (11:43 +0530)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:52:49 +0000 (10:52 -0400)
Call ext4_unregister_sysfs(), before destroying jbd2 journal,
since below might cause, NULL pointer dereference issue.
This got reported with LTP tests.

ext4_put_super()  cat /sys/fs/ext4/loop2/journal_task
|  ext4_attr_show();
ext4_jbd2_journal_destroy();   |
     |  journal_task_show()
|  |
|  task_pid_vnr(NULL);
sbi->s_journal = NULL;

Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318061301.4320-1-riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/super.c

index 5dc65b7..27ab130 100644 (file)
@@ -1024,6 +1024,13 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 
        destroy_workqueue(sbi->rsv_conversion_wq);
 
+       /*
+        * Unregister sysfs before destroying jbd2 journal.
+        * Since we could still access attr_journal_task attribute via sysfs
+        * path which could have sbi->s_journal->j_task as NULL
+        */
+       ext4_unregister_sysfs(sb);
+
        if (sbi->s_journal) {
                aborted = is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal);
                err = jbd2_journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
@@ -1034,7 +1041,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
                }
        }
 
-       ext4_unregister_sysfs(sb);
        ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(sbi);
        del_timer_sync(&sbi->s_err_report);
        ext4_release_system_zone(sb);