From 92e3b40537707001d17bbad800d150ab04e53bf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:33:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_journal_start_reserved() If start_this_handle() fails then it leads to a use after free of "handle". Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- 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 8360674..60bb365 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); -- 2.7.4