[PATCH] btrfs: Handle uninitialised inode eviction

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Wed Jun 29 2016 - 02:46:52 EST


The code flow in btrfs_new_inode allows for btrfs_evict_inode to be
called with not fully initialised inode (e.g. ->root member not
being set). This can happen when btrfs_set_inode_index in
btrfs_new_inode fails, which in turn would call iput for the newly
allocated inode. This in turn leads to vfs calling into btrfs_evict_inode.
This leads to null pointer dereference. To handle this situation check whether
the passed inode has root set and just free it in case it doesn't.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hello,

I belive this is fixes the issue reported in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/57809

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 4421954720b8..b51723811d01 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -5159,11 +5159,18 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
struct btrfs_block_rsv *rsv, *global_rsv;
int steal_from_global = 0;
- u64 min_size = btrfs_calc_trunc_metadata_size(root, 1);
+ u64 min_size;
int ret;

trace_btrfs_inode_evict(inode);

+ if (!root) {
+ kmem_cache_free(btrfs_inode_cachep, BTRFS_I(inode));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ min_size = btrfs_calc_trunc_metadata_size(root, 1);
+
evict_inode_truncate_pages(inode);

if (inode->i_nlink &&
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2.5.0