The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From 42a657f57628402c73237547f0134e083e2f6764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:10:15 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: relocation: set trans to be NULL after ending transaction
The function relocate_block_group calls btrfs_end_transaction to release trans when update_backref_cache returns 1, and then continues the loop body. If btrfs_block_rsv_refill fails this time, it will jump out the loop and the freed trans will be accessed. This may result in a use-after-free bug. The patch assigns NULL to trans after trans is released so that it will not be accessed.
Fixes: 0647bf564f1 ("Btrfs: improve forever loop when doing balance relocation") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c index 924116f654a1..a3f75b8926d4 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c @@ -3959,6 +3959,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int relocate_block_group(struct reloc_control *rc) restart: if (update_backref_cache(trans, &rc->backref_cache)) { btrfs_end_transaction(trans); + trans = NULL; continue; }