3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> commit 06db49e68ae70cf16819b85a14057acb2820776a upstream. The function ext4_handle_dirty_super() was calculating the superblock on the wrong block data. As a result, when the superblock is modified while it is mounted (most commonly, when inodes are added or removed from the orphan list), the superblock checksum would be wrong. We didn't notice because the superblock *was* being correctly calculated in ext4_commit_super(), and this would get called when the file system was unmounted. So the problem only became obvious if the system crashed while the file system was mounted. Fix this by removing the poorly designed function signature for ext4_superblock_csum_set(); if it only took a single argument, the pointer to a struct superblock, the ambiguity which caused this mistake would have been impossible. Reported-by: George Spelvin <li...@horizon.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu> Tested-by: George Spelvin <li...@horizon.com> --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +-- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 8 ++------ fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++--- 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -2046,8 +2046,7 @@ extern int ext4_resize_fs(struct super_b extern int ext4_calculate_overhead(struct super_block *sb); extern int ext4_superblock_csum_verify(struct super_block *sb, struct ext4_super_block *es); -extern void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb, - struct ext4_super_block *es); +extern void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb); extern void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags); extern void *ext4_kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags); extern void ext4_kvfree(void *ptr); --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c @@ -143,17 +143,13 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_super(const char struct buffer_head *bh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh; int err = 0; + ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) { - ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb, - (struct ext4_super_block *)bh->b_data); err = jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh); if (err) ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, line, __func__, bh, handle, err); - } else { - ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb, - (struct ext4_super_block *)bh->b_data); + } else mark_buffer_dirty(bh); - } return err; } --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ static void update_backups(struct super_ goto exit_err; } - ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb, (struct ext4_super_block *)data); + ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); while ((group = ext4_list_backups(sb, &three, &five, &seven)) < last) { struct buffer_head *bh; --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -143,9 +143,10 @@ int ext4_superblock_csum_verify(struct s return es->s_checksum == ext4_superblock_csum(sb, es); } -void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb, - struct ext4_super_block *es) +void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb) { + struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es; + if (!EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM)) return; @@ -4343,7 +4344,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct supe cpu_to_le32(percpu_counter_sum_positive( &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_freeinodes_counter)); BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty"); - ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb, es); + ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); mark_buffer_dirty(sbh); if (sync) { error = sync_dirty_buffer(sbh); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/