From c5c7b8ddfbf8cb3b2291e515a34ab1b8982f5a2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:46:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix buffer double free in ext4_alloc_branch() Error recovery in ext4_alloc_branch() calls ext4_forget() even for buffer corresponding to indirect block it did not allocate. This leads to brelse() being called twice for that buffer (once from ext4_forget() and once from cleanup in ext4_ind_map_blocks()) leading to buffer use count misaccounting. Eventually (but often much later because there are other users of the buffer) we will see messages like: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer Another manifestation of this problem is an error: JBD2 unexpected failure: jbd2_journal_revoke: !buffer_revoked(bh); inconsistent data on disk The fix is easy - don't forget buffer we did not allocate. Also add an explanatory comment because the indexing at ext4_alloc_branch() is somewhat subtle. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c index 8a57e9f..f85bafd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c +++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c @@ -389,7 +389,13 @@ static int ext4_alloc_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, return 0; failed: for (; i >= 0; i--) { - if (i != indirect_blks && branch[i].bh) + /* + * We want to ext4_forget() only freshly allocated indirect + * blocks. Buffer for new_blocks[i-1] is at branch[i].bh and + * buffer at branch[0].bh is indirect block / inode already + * existing before ext4_alloc_branch() was called. + */ + if (i > 0 && i != indirect_blks && branch[i].bh) ext4_forget(handle, 1, inode, branch[i].bh, branch[i].bh->b_blocknr); ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, NULL, new_blocks[i], -- 2.7.4