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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c, branch v3.2.51</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>jbd2: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T00:57:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2013-08-12T13:53:28+00:00</published>
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commit 91aa11fae1cf8c2fd67be0609692ea9741cdcc43 upstream.

When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error,
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this
function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed
handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely
we oops soon.

The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to
improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with
ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information.

Reported-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 91aa11fae1cf8c2fd67be0609692ea9741cdcc43 upstream.

When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error,
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this
function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed
handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely
we oops soon.

The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to
improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with
ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information.

Reported-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>jbd2: add debugging information to jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()</title>
<updated>2011-09-04T14:18:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-04T14:18:14+00:00</published>
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Add debugging information in case jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() is
called with a buffer_head which didn't have
jbd2_journal_get_write_access() called on it, or if the journal_head
has the wrong transaction in it.  In addition, return an error code.
This won't change anything for ocfs2, which will BUG_ON() the non-zero
exit code.

For ext4, the caller of this function is ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
and on seeing a non-zero return code, will call __ext4_journal_stop(),
which will print the function and line number of the (buggy) calling
function and abort the journal.  This will allow us to recover instead
of bug halting, which is better from a robustness and reliability
point of view.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Add debugging information in case jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() is
called with a buffer_head which didn't have
jbd2_journal_get_write_access() called on it, or if the journal_head
has the wrong transaction in it.  In addition, return an error code.
This won't change anything for ocfs2, which will BUG_ON() the non-zero
exit code.

For ext4, the caller of this function is ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
and on seeing a non-zero return code, will call __ext4_journal_stop(),
which will print the function and line number of the (buggy) calling
function and abort the journal.  This will allow us to recover instead
of bug halting, which is better from a robustness and reliability
point of view.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: remove unneeded ext4_journal_get_undo_access</title>
<updated>2011-05-09T14:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2011-05-09T14:58:45+00:00</published>
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The block allocation code used to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access as
a way to make changes that wouldn't show up until the commit took
place.  The new multi-block allocation code has a its own way of
preventing newly freed blocks from getting reused until the commit
takes place (it avoids updating the buddy bitmaps until the commit is
done), so we don't need to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(), which
has extra overhead compared to jbd2_journal_get_write_access().

There was one last vestigal use of ext4_journal_get_undo_access() in
ext4_add_groupblocks(); change it to use ext4_journal_get_write_access()
and then remove the ext4_journal_get_undo_access() support.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The block allocation code used to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access as
a way to make changes that wouldn't show up until the commit took
place.  The new multi-block allocation code has a its own way of
preventing newly freed blocks from getting reused until the commit
takes place (it avoids updating the buddy bitmaps until the commit is
done), so we don't need to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(), which
has extra overhead compared to jbd2_journal_get_write_access().

There was one last vestigal use of ext4_journal_get_undo_access() in
ext4_add_groupblocks(); change it to use ext4_journal_get_write_access()
and then remove the ext4_journal_get_undo_access() support.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Save error information to the superblock for analysis</title>
<updated>2010-07-27T15:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-07-27T15:56:03+00:00</published>
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Save number of file system errors, and the time function name, line
number, block number, and inode number of the first and most recent
errors reported on the file system in the superblock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Save number of file system errors, and the time function name, line
number, block number, and inode number of the first and most recent
errors reported on the file system in the superblock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Pass line numbers to ext4_error() and friends</title>
<updated>2010-07-27T15:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-07-27T15:56:40+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Pass line number to ext4_journal_abort_handle()</title>
<updated>2010-06-29T18:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-29T18:53:24+00:00</published>
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This allows the error messages to include the line number

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This allows the error messages to include the line number

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: clean up ext4_abort() so __func__ is now implicit</title>
<updated>2010-06-29T15:07:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-06-29T15:07:07+00:00</published>
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Use a macro definition for ext4_abort() to clean up the .c files a wee
bit.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Use a macro definition for ext4_abort() to clean up the .c files a wee
bit.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Clean up s_dirt handling</title>
<updated>2010-06-12T03:14:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-12T03:14:04+00:00</published>
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We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled.  In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted.  As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt.  There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.

This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled.  In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted.  As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt.  There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.

This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal mode</title>
<updated>2010-02-16T20:06:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Curt Wohlgemuth</name>
<email>curtw@google.com</email>
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<published>2010-02-16T20:06:29+00:00</published>
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Calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata should only pass in an inode
pointer for inode-specific metadata, and not for shared metadata
blocks such as inode table blocks, block group descriptors, the
superblock, etc.

The BUG_ON can get tripped when updating a special device (such as a
block device) that is opened (so that i_mapping is set in
fs/block_dev.c) and the file system is mounted in no journal mode.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #2404870

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth &lt;curtw@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata should only pass in an inode
pointer for inode-specific metadata, and not for shared metadata
blocks such as inode table blocks, block group descriptors, the
superblock, etc.

The BUG_ON can get tripped when updating a special device (such as a
block device) that is opened (so that i_mapping is set in
fs/block_dev.c) and the file system is mounted in no journal mode.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #2404870

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth &lt;curtw@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: move __func__ into a macro for ext4_warning, ext4_error</title>
<updated>2010-02-15T19:19:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-02-15T19:19:27+00:00</published>
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Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__
or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync.

I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll
be consistent from then on.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__
or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync.

I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll
be consistent from then on.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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