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xfs: clear sb->s_fs_info on mount failure
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Fri, 11 May 2018 04:50:23 +0000 (21:50 -0700)
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Wed, 16 May 2018 00:57:05 +0000 (17:57 -0700)
commitc9fbd7bbc23dbdd73364be4d045e5d3612cf6e82
tree044ffcd49ff39cdbdbb900b8cb47a5286b9fb3f1
parentdae5cd811852c92072f89b36242981e05f856d5b
xfs: clear sb->s_fs_info on mount failure

We recently had an oops reported on a 4.14 kernel in
xfs_reclaim_inodes_count() where sb->s_fs_info pointed to garbage
and so the m_perag_tree lookup walked into lala land.

Essentially, the machine was under memory pressure when the mount
was being run, xfs_fs_fill_super() failed after allocating the
xfs_mount and attaching it to sb->s_fs_info. It then cleaned up and
freed the xfs_mount, but the sb->s_fs_info field still pointed to
the freed memory. Hence when the superblock shrinker then ran
it fell off the bad pointer.

With the superblock shrinker problem fixed at teh VFS level, this
stale s_fs_info pointer is still a problem - we use it
unconditionally in ->put_super when the superblock is being torn
down, and hence we can still trip over it after a ->fill_super
call failure. Hence we need to clear s_fs_info if
xfs-fs_fill_super() fails, and we need to check if it's valid in
the places it can potentially be dereferenced after a ->fill_super
failure.

Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c