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jbd2: fix race between write_metadata_buffer and get_write_access
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The function jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() calls
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh_in) too early; this could potentially allow
another thread to call get_write_access on the buffer head, modify the
data, and dirty it, and allowing the wrong data to be written into the
journal.  Fortunately, if we lose this race, the only time this will
actually cause filesystem corruption is if there is a system crash or
other unclean shutdown of the system before the next commit can take
place.

Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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dingdinghua authored and Theodore Ts'o committed Jul 13, 2009
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20 changes: 11 additions & 9 deletions fs/jbd2/journal.c
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Expand Up @@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
unsigned int new_offset;
struct buffer_head *bh_in = jh2bh(jh_in);
struct jbd2_buffer_trigger_type *triggers;
journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;

/*
* The buffer really shouldn't be locked: only the current committing
Expand All @@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
J_ASSERT_BH(bh_in, buffer_jbddirty(bh_in));

new_bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
/* keep subsequent assertions sane */
new_bh->b_state = 0;
init_buffer(new_bh, NULL, NULL);
atomic_set(&new_bh->b_count, 1);
new_jh = jbd2_journal_add_journal_head(new_bh); /* This sleeps */

/*
* If a new transaction has already done a buffer copy-out, then
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kunmap_atomic(mapped_data, KM_USER0);
}

/* keep subsequent assertions sane */
new_bh->b_state = 0;
init_buffer(new_bh, NULL, NULL);
atomic_set(&new_bh->b_count, 1);
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh_in);

new_jh = jbd2_journal_add_journal_head(new_bh); /* This sleeps */

set_bh_page(new_bh, new_page, new_offset);
new_jh->b_transaction = NULL;
new_bh->b_size = jh2bh(jh_in)->b_size;
Expand All @@ -412,7 +410,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
* copying is moved to the transaction's shadow queue.
*/
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh_in, "file as BJ_Shadow");
jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh_in, transaction, BJ_Shadow);
spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
__jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh_in, transaction, BJ_Shadow);
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh_in);

JBUFFER_TRACE(new_jh, "file as BJ_IO");
jbd2_journal_file_buffer(new_jh, transaction, BJ_IO);

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