From: Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com
commit 72ffb49a7b623c92a37657eda7cc46a06d3e8398 upstream.
When CONFIG_QUOTA is enabled, if we failed to mount the filesystem due to some error happens behind ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it will end up triggering a after free issue of super_block. The problem is that ext4_orphan_cleanup() will set SB_ACTIVE flag if CONFIG_QUOTA is enabled, after we cleanup the truncated inodes, the last iput() will put them into the lru list, and these inodes' pages may probably dirty and will be write back by the writeback thread, so it could be raced by freeing super_block in the error path of mount_bdev().
After check the setting of SB_ACTIVE flag in ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it was used to ensure updating the quota file properly, but evict inode and trash data immediately in the last iput does not affect the quotafile, so setting the SB_ACTIVE flag seems not required[1]. Fix this issue by just remove the SB_ACTIVE setting.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/99cce8ca-e4a0-7301-840f-2ace67c551f3@huaw...
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com Tested-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331033138.918975-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/ext4/super.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2675,9 +2675,6 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct s sb->s_flags &= ~SB_RDONLY; } #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA - /* Needed for iput() to work correctly and not trash data */ - sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE; - /* * Turn on quotas which were not enabled for read-only mounts if * filesystem has quota feature, so that they are updated correctly.