The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: fix possible null-ptr-deref in ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Lizhi Xu lizhi.xu@windriver.com Subject: ocfs2: fix possible null-ptr-deref in ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:36:36 +0800
When doing cleanup, if flags without OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD, it may trigger NULL pointer dereference in the following ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate() if bh is NULL.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902023636.1843422-3-joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.c... Fixes: cf76c78595ca ("ocfs2: don't put and assigning null to bh allocated outside") Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu lizhi.xu@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com Reported-by: Heming Zhao heming.zhao@suse.com Suggested-by: Heming Zhao heming.zhao@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.20+] Cc: Changwei Ge gechangwei@live.cn Cc: Gang He ghe@suse.com Cc: Joel Becker jlbec@evilplan.org Cc: Jun Piao piaojun@huawei.com Cc: Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com Cc: Mark Fasheh mark@fasheh.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c~ocfs2-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate +++ a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c @@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ read_failure: /* Always set the buffer in the cache, even if it was * a forced read, or read-ahead which hasn't yet * completed. */ - ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate(ci, bh); + if (bh) + ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate(ci, bh); } ocfs2_metadata_cache_io_unlock(ci);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizhi.xu@windriver.com are
ocfs2-remove-unreasonable-unlock-in-ocfs2_read_blocks.patch ocfs2-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-ocfs2_set_buffer_uptodate.patch