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authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-05-14 18:24:16 +1000
committerTim Shimmin <tes@chook.melbourne.sgi.com>2007-07-14 15:22:34 +1000
commit3db296f341b5902c4f9317022ae5d4da2d59d598 (patch)
treef351eb33c6bac70d82d9f3adf0836d4c424bad92 /fs
parent40095b64f5da601a8ab61fbe4b40feb46830052e (diff)
downloadlinux-3db296f341b5902c4f9317022ae5d4da2d59d598.tar.gz
[XFS] Fix use-after-free during log unmount.
Don't reference the log buffer after running the callbacks as the callback
can trigger the log buffers to be freed during unmount.

SGI-PV: 964545
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28567a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_log.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 635f99e6302f..5bb902056e61 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -967,14 +967,16 @@ xlog_iodone(xfs_buf_t *bp)
 	} else if (iclog->ic_state & XLOG_STATE_IOERROR) {
 		aborted = XFS_LI_ABORTED;
 	}
+
+	/* log I/O is always issued ASYNC */
+	ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ISASYNC(bp));
 	xlog_state_done_syncing(iclog, aborted);
-	if (!(XFS_BUF_ISASYNC(bp))) {
-		/*
-		 * Corresponding psema() will be done in bwrite().  If we don't
-		 * vsema() here, panic.
-		 */
-		XFS_BUF_V_IODONESEMA(bp);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * do not reference the buffer (bp) here as we could race
+	 * with it being freed after writing the unmount record to the
+	 * log.
+	 */
+
 }	/* xlog_iodone */
 
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