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Thomas Tai cc1dfa8b75 gfs2: fix slab corruption during mounting and umounting gfs file system
When using cman-3.0.12.1 and gfs2-utils-3.0.12.1, mounting and
unmounting GFS2 file system would cause kernel to hang. The slab
allocator suggests that it is likely a double free memory corruption.
The issue is traced back to v3.9-rc6 where a patch is submitted to
use kzalloc() for storing a bitmap instead of using a local variable.
The intention is to allocate memory during mount and to free memory
during unmount. The original patch misses a code path which has
already freed the memory and caused memory corruption. This patch sets
the memory pointer to NULL after the memory is freed, so that double
free memory corruption will not happen.

gdlm_mount()
  '-- set_recover_size() which use kzalloc()
  '-- if dlm does not support ops callbacks then
          '--- free_recover_size() which use kfree()

gldm_unmount()
  '-- free_recover_size() which use kfree()

Previous patch which introduced the double free issue is
commit 57c7310b8e ("GFS2: use kmalloc for lvb bitmap")

Signed-off-by: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
2017-08-15 11:54:09 -05:00
arch Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
block Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-06 20:57:13 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
Documentation Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
drivers Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs gfs2: fix slab corruption during mounting and umounting gfs file system 2017-08-15 11:54:09 -05:00
include Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
init mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
ipc Writeback error handling fixes (pile #1) 2017-07-07 18:39:15 -07:00
kernel linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update 2017-07-07 14:04:47 -07:00
lib Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
mm Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
net Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
samples bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file 2017-07-05 09:05:28 +01:00
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security Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-06 10:56:51 -07:00
tools Kbuild updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 14:09:24 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt PPC: 2017-07-06 18:38:31 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.