[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "Btrfs: fix double free in find_lock_delalloc_range" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 26 10:36:46 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-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 231fc1d7f08266eaa503979f77c64883324432d5 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>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 fe443fece851..6c80e0801e58 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -1654,6 +1654,7 @@ 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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