Re: [Patch] hfsplus oops on image without extends

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Fri May 09 2008 - 09:13:30 EST


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:42:44PM +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> hi,
>
> the following patch fixes an oops with a corrupted hfs+ image.
> see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10548 for details.
>
> Problem is that we call hfs_btree_open() from hfsplus_fill_super() to set
> HFSPLUS_SB(sb).[ext_tree|cat_tree]
> Both trees are still NULL at this moment. If hfs_btree_open() fails for
> any reason it calls iput() on the page, which
> gets to hfsplus_releasepage() which tries to access HFSPLUS_SB(sb).*
> which is still NULL and oopses while dereferencing it.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/inode.c.orig 2008-05-07 14:37:31.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/inode.c 2008-05-07 14:38:05.000000000 +0200
> @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ static int hfsplus_releasepage(struct pa
> BUG();
> return 0;
> }
> + it (!tree)
> + return 0;

Erm, I presume this is meant to be 'if', checkpatch whined about the
space as it thought it was a function. I guess this hasn't been compile
tested?

> if (tree->node_size >= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
> nidx = page->index >> (tree->node_size_shift - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
> spin_lock(&tree->hash_lock);

-apw
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