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The race condition could cause the persisted superblock checksum to not match the contents of the superblock, causing the superblock to be considered corrupt. An example of the race follows. A first thread is interrupted in the middle of a checksum calculation. Then, another thread changes the superblock, calculates a new checksum, and sets it. Then, the first thread resumes and sets the checksum based on the older superblock. To fix, serialize the superblock checksum calculation using the buffer header lock. While a spinlock is sufficient, the buffer header is already there and there is precedent for locking it (e.g. in ext4_commit_super). Tested the patch by booting up a kernel with the patch, creating a filesystem and some files (including some orphans), and then unmounting and remounting the file system. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Constantine Sapuntzakis <costa@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914161014.22275-1-costa@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.