[dm-devel] [PATCH] bcachefs: fix NULL pointer dereference in try_alloc_bucket
Mikulas Patocka
mpatocka at redhat.com
Tue May 30 12:15:41 UTC 2023
On Mon, 29 May 2023, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The oops happens in set_btree_iter_dontneed and it is caused by the fact
> that iter->path is NULL. The code in try_alloc_bucket is buggy because it
> sets "struct btree_iter iter = { NULL };" and then jumps to the "err"
> label that tries to dereference values in "iter".
Here I'm sending a patch for it.
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
The function try_alloc_bucket sets the variable "iter" to NULL and then
(on various error conditions) jumps to the label "err". On the "err"
label, it calls "set_btree_iter_dontneed" that tries to dereference
"iter->trans" and "iter->path".
So, we get an oops on error condition.
This patch fixes the crash by testing that iter.trans and iter.path is
non-zero before calling set_btree_iter_dontneed.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
---
fs/bcachefs/alloc_foreground.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: bcachefs/fs/bcachefs/alloc_foreground.c
===================================================================
--- bcachefs.orig/fs/bcachefs/alloc_foreground.c
+++ bcachefs/fs/bcachefs/alloc_foreground.c
@@ -371,7 +371,8 @@ static struct open_bucket *try_alloc_buc
if (!ob)
iter.path->preserve = false;
err:
- set_btree_iter_dontneed(&iter);
+ if (iter.trans && iter.path)
+ set_btree_iter_dontneed(&iter);
bch2_trans_iter_exit(trans, &iter);
printbuf_exit(&buf);
return ob;
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