[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH] GFS2: Prevent double brelse in gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer

[Bob Peterson]

Hi,

Before this patch, problems reading in indirect buffers would send
an IO error back to the caller, and release the buffer_head with
brelse() in function gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer, however, it would
still return the address of the buffer_head it released. After the
error was discovered, function gfs2_block_map would call function
release_metapath to free all buffers. That checked:
if (mp->mp_bh[i] == NULL) but since the value was set after the
error, it was non-zero, so brelse was called a second time. This
resulted in the following error:

kernel: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1224 __brelse+0x3a/0x40()
kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer

This patch changes gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer so it only sets
the buffer_head pointer in cases where it isn't released.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 663ffc1..c7d2c76 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -419,8 +419,9 @@ int gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer(struct gfs2_inode *ip, int height, u64 num,
 	if (ret == 0 && gfs2_metatype_check(sdp, bh, mtype)) {
 		brelse(bh);
 		ret = -EIO;
+	} else {
+		*bhp = bh;
 	}
-	*bhp = bh;
 	return ret;
 }