[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "Btrfs: fix double free in find_lock_delalloc_range" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Jul 21 21:21:44 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
Btrfs: fix double free in find_lock_delalloc_range
to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 113b135ebf23a62235aa8985ed9a4cb3b01d2bf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Mason <clm at fb.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 05:49:54 -0700
Subject: Btrfs: fix double free in find_lock_delalloc_range
commit 7d78874273463a784759916fc3e0b4e2eb141c70 upstream.
We need to NULL the cached_state after freeing it, otherwise
we might free it again if find_delalloc_range doesn't find anything.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 125397e..0a800dc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ again:
* shortening the size of the delalloc range we're searching
*/
free_extent_state(cached_state);
+ cached_state = NULL;
if (!loops) {
unsigned long offset = (*start) & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
max_bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
--
1.9.1
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