ext4: handle deleting corrupted indirect blocks From: Duane Griffin While freeing indirect blocks we attach a journal head to the parent buffer head, free the blocks, then journal the parent. If the indirect block list is corrupted and points to the parent the journal head will be detached when the block is cleared, causing an OOPS. Check for that explicitly and handle it gracefully. This patch fixes the third case (image hdb.20000057.nullderef.gz) reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10882. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc9.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c 2008-07-11 16:04:55.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/inode.c 2008-07-11 16:04:55.000000000 -0700 @@ -2179,7 +2179,21 @@ static void ext4_free_data(handle_t *han if (this_bh) { BUFFER_TRACE(this_bh, "call ext4_journal_dirty_metadata"); - ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, this_bh); + + /* + * The buffer head should have an attached journal head at this + * point. However, if the data is corrupted and an indirect + * block pointed to itself, it would have been detached when + * the block was cleared. Check for this instead of OOPSing. + */ + if (bh2jh(this_bh)) + ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, this_bh); + else + ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__, + "circular indirect block detected, " + "inode=%lu, block=%llu", + inode->i_ino, + (unsigned long long) this_bh->b_blocknr); } }