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If ext4 tries to start a reserved handle via jbd2_journal_start_reserved(), and the journal has been aborted, this can result in a NULL pointer dereference. This is because the fields h_journal and h_transaction in the handle structure share the same memory, via a union, so jbd2_journal_start_reserved() will clear h_journal before calling start_this_handle(). If this function fails due to an aborted handle, h_journal will still be NULL, and the call to jbd2_journal_free_reserved() will pass a NULL journal to sub_reserve_credits(). This can be reproduced by running "kvm-xfstests -c dioread_nolock generic/475". Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.11 Fixes: 8f7d89f36829b ("jbd2: transaction reservation support") Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.