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nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_dirty_buffer tracepoint
commit 2026559a6c4ce34db117d2db8f710fe2a9420d5a upstream. When using the "block:block_dirty_buffer" tracepoint, mark_buffer_dirty() may cause a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because, since the tracepoint was added in mark_buffer_dirty(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, nilfs_grab_buffer(), which grabs a buffer to read (or create) a block of metadata, including b-tree node blocks, does not set the block device, but instead does so only if the buffer is not in the "uptodate" state for each of its caller block reading functions. However, if the uptodate flag is set on a folio/page, and the buffer heads are detached from it by try_to_free_buffers(), and new buffer heads are then attached by create_empty_buffers(), the uptodate flag may be restored to each buffer without the block device being set to bh->b_bdev, and mark_buffer_dirty() may be called later in that state, resulting in the bug mentioned above. Fix this issue by making nilfs_grab_buffer() always set the block device of the super block structure to the buffer head, regardless of the state of the buffer's uptodate flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 5305cb830834 ("block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Ubisectech Sirius <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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