[PATCH] fs/block_dev: fix potential NULL ptr deref in freeze_bdev()

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Tue Aug 23 2016 - 17:29:47 EST


Calling freeze_bdev() twice on the same block device without mounted
filesystem get_super() will return NULL, which will lead to NULL-ptr
dereference later in drop_super().

Check get_super() result to fix that.

Note, that this is a purely theoretical issue. We have only 3
freeze_bdev() callers. 2 of them are in filesystem code and used on a
device with mounted fs. The third one in lock_fs() has protection in
upper-layer code against freezing block device the second time without
thawing it first.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index c3cdde8..c18b083 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ struct super_block *freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
* thaw_bdev drops it.
*/
sb = get_super(bdev);
- drop_super(sb);
+ if (sb)
+ drop_super(sb);
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
return sb;
}
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2.7.3