tree 1bf927adf4bf63cc39961cad2476774ab88b47ee
parent b7dc2df5725fe7355fd76000ead7e39728e1b8a9
author Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> 1276807537 -0400
committer Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> 1279181185 +0100

GFS2: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference by dlm_astd

This patch fixes a problem in an error path when looking
up dinodes.  There are two sister-functions, gfs2_inode_lookup
and gfs2_process_unlinked_inode.  Both functions acquire and
hold the i_iopen glock for the dinode being looked up. The last
thing they try to do is hold the i_gl glock for the dinode.
If that glock fails for some reason, the error path was
incorrectly calling gfs2_glock_put for the i_iopen glock twice.
This resulted in the glock being prematurely freed.  The
"minimum hold time" usually kept the glock in memory, but the
lock interface to dlm (aka lock_dlm) freed its memory for the
glock.  In some circumstances, it would cause dlm's dlm_astd daemon
to try to call the bast function for the freed lock_dlm memory,
which resulted in a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>