[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 <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 12bdb27..13e5938 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@
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 @@
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