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Mingming Cao 8a2bfdcbfa [PATCH] ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix ... There are race issues around ext[34] xattr block release code. ext[34]_xattr_release_block() checks the reference count of xattr block (h_refcount) and frees that xattr block if it is the last one reference it. Unlike ext2, the check of this counter is unprotected by any lock. ext[34]_xattr_release_block() will free the mb_cache entry before freeing that xattr block. There is a small window between the check for the re h_refcount ==1 and the call to mb_cache_entry_free(). During this small window another inode might find this xattr block from the mbcache and reuse it, racing a refcount updates. The xattr block will later be freed by the first inode without notice other inode is still use it. Later if that block is reallocated as a datablock for other file, then more serious problem might happen. We need put a lock around places checking the refount as well to avoid racing issue. Another place need this kind of protection is in ext3_xattr_block_set(), where it will modify the xattr block content in- the-fly if the refcount is 1 (means it's the only inode reference it). This will also fix another issue: the xattr block may not get freed at all if no lock is to protect the refcount check at the release time. It is possible that the last two inodes could release the shared xattr block at the same time. But both of them think they are not the last one so only decreased the h_refcount without freeing xattr block at all. We need to call lock_buffer() after ext3_journal_get_write_access() to avoid deadlock (because the later will call lock_buffer()/unlock_buffer () as well). Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		18 years ago
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balloc.c	[PATCH] ext[234]: update documentation	18 years ago
bitmap.c	…
dir.c	…
ext4_jbd2.c	…
extents.c	Fix misspellings of "agressive".	18 years ago
file.c	…
fsync.c	…
hash.c	[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h	18 years ago
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namei.c	…
namei.h	…
resize.c	[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h	18 years ago
super.c	[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const	18 years ago
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xattr.c	[PATCH] ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix	18 years ago
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