ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778265
commit b2569260d55228b617bd82aba6d0db2faeeb4116 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index c0681814c37917d48023286c2ded06f4671d3b90..07793e25c9763c4b4866b09ac685b10dbe6f791d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_reserved(handle_t *handle, unsigned int type,
         */
        ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, GFP_NOFS);
        if (ret < 0) {
+               handle->h_journal = journal;
                jbd2_journal_free_reserved(handle);
                return ret;
        }