From 77b9d059cb3ddb8b1246d5878e81d52926550b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:34:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete()

By the time bdi_work_on_stack gets evaluated again in bdi_work_free, it
can already have been deallocated and used for something else in the
!on stack case, giving a false positive in this test and causing
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 6bca6f8176f0..7eba7326b9b9 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void bdi_work_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 static void wb_work_complete(struct bdi_work *work)
 {
 	const enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode = work->args.sync_mode;
+	int onstack = bdi_work_on_stack(work);
 
 	/*
 	 * For allocated work, we can clear the done/seen bit right here.
@@ -120,9 +121,9 @@ static void wb_work_complete(struct bdi_work *work)
 	 * to after the RCU grace period, since the stack could be invalidated
 	 * as soon as bdi_work_clear() has done the wakeup.
 	 */
-	if (!bdi_work_on_stack(work))
+	if (!onstack)
 		bdi_work_clear(work);
-	if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || bdi_work_on_stack(work))
+	if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || onstack)
 		call_rcu(&work->rcu_head, bdi_work_free);
 }
 
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