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ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle
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: [email protected] # 3.11 Fixes: 8f7d89f ("jbd2: transaction reservation support") Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
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fs/jbd2/transaction.c

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@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_reserved(handle_t *handle, unsigned int type,
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ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, GFP_NOFS);
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if (ret < 0) {
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handle->h_journal = journal;
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jbd2_journal_free_reserved(handle);
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return ret;
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}

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