From 152becd26e0563aefdbc4fd1fe491928efe92d1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:10:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Bug in error recovery in fs/buffer.c::__block_prepare_write() fs/buffer.c::__block_prepare_write() has broken error recovery. It calls the get_block() callback with "create = 1" and if that succeeds it immediately clears buffer_new on the just allocated buffer (which has buffer_new set). The bug is that if an error occurs and get_block() returns != 0, we break from this loop and go into recovery code. This code has this comment: /* Error case: */ /* * Zero out any newly allocated blocks to avoid exposing stale * data. If BH_New is set, we know that the block was newly * allocated in the above loop. */ So the intent is obviously good in that it wants to clear just allocated and hence not zeroed buffers. However the code recognises allocated buffers by checking for buffer_new being set. Unfortunately __block_prepare_write() as discussed above already cleared buffer_new on all allocated buffers thus no buffers will be cleared during error recovery and old data will be leaked. The simplest way I can see to fix this is to make the current recovery code work by _not_ clearing buffer_new after calling get_block() in __block_prepare_write(). We cannot safely allow buffer_new buffers to "leak out" of __block_prepare_write(), thus we simply do a quick loop over the buffers clearing buffer_new on each of them if it is set just before returning "success" from __block_prepare_write(). Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 12bdb279112..13e5938a64f 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, if (err) break; if (buffer_new(bh)) { - clear_buffer_new(bh); unmap_underlying_metadata(bh->b_bdev, bh->b_blocknr); if (PageUptodate(page)) { @@ -1968,9 +1967,14 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, if (!buffer_uptodate(*wait_bh)) err = -EIO; } - if (!err) - return err; - + if (!err) { + bh = head; + do { + if (buffer_new(bh)) + clear_buffer_new(bh); + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); + return 0; + } /* Error case: */ /* * Zero out any newly allocated blocks to avoid exposing stale -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258