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| author | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> | 2005-06-23 00:10:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-23 09:45:34 -0700 |
| commit | 152becd26e0563aefdbc4fd1fe491928efe92d1f (patch) | |
| tree | 713a5ff0a1610708babf7e57fd3141cd4b9f183e /fs/buffer.c | |
| parent | 9a59f452abe11f569e13ec16c51e6d61c54b9838 (diff) | |
| download | linux-152becd26e0563aefdbc4fd1fe491928efe92d1f.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] Bug in error recovery in fs/buffer.c::__block_prepare_write()
fs/buffer.c::__block_prepare_write() has broken error recovery. It calls
the get_block() callback with "create = 1" and if that succeeds it
immediately clears buffer_new on the just allocated buffer (which has
buffer_new set).
The bug is that if an error occurs and get_block() returns != 0, we break
from this loop and go into recovery code. This code has this comment:
/* Error case: */
/*
* Zero out any newly allocated blocks to avoid exposing stale
* data. If BH_New is set, we know that the block was newly
* allocated in the above loop.
*/
So the intent is obviously good in that it wants to clear just allocated
and hence not zeroed buffers. However the code recognises allocated
buffers by checking for buffer_new being set.
Unfortunately __block_prepare_write() as discussed above already cleared
buffer_new on all allocated buffers thus no buffers will be cleared during
error recovery and old data will be leaked.
The simplest way I can see to fix this is to make the current recovery code
work by _not_ clearing buffer_new after calling get_block() in
__block_prepare_write().
We cannot safely allow buffer_new buffers to "leak out" of
__block_prepare_write(), thus we simply do a quick loop over the buffers
clearing buffer_new on each of them if it is set just before returning
"success" from __block_prepare_write().
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 12bdb2791127..13e5938a64f6 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, if (err) break; if (buffer_new(bh)) { - clear_buffer_new(bh); unmap_underlying_metadata(bh->b_bdev, bh->b_blocknr); if (PageUptodate(page)) { @@ -1968,9 +1967,14 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, if (!buffer_uptodate(*wait_bh)) err = -EIO; } - if (!err) - return err; - + if (!err) { + bh = head; + do { + if (buffer_new(bh)) + clear_buffer_new(bh); + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); + return 0; + } /* Error case: */ /* * Zero out any newly allocated blocks to avoid exposing stale |