ext4: fix possible use-after-free in ext4_remove_li_request()

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793702

commit 1bb933fb1fa8e4cb337a0d5dfd2ff4c0dc2073e8 upstream.

We need to take reference to the s_li_request after we take a mutex,
because it might be freed since then, hence result in accessing old
already freed memory. Also we should protect the whole
ext4_remove_li_request() because ext4_li_info might be in the process of
being freed in ext4_lazyinit_thread().

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 243deb0..f3e1b18 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2716,14 +2716,16 @@ static void ext4_remove_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 
 static void ext4_unregister_li_request(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-       struct ext4_li_request *elr = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_li_request;
-
-       if (!ext4_li_info)
+       mutex_lock(&ext4_li_mtx);
+       if (!ext4_li_info) {
+               mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_mtx);
                return;
+       }
 
        mutex_lock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
-       ext4_remove_li_request(elr);
+       ext4_remove_li_request(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_li_request);
        mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
+       mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_mtx);
 }
 
 static struct task_struct *ext4_lazyinit_task;