ocfs2: fix mounting crash if journal is not alloced

Patch series "rewrite error handling during mounting stage".


This patch (of 5):

After commit da5e7c87827e8 ("ocfs2: cleanup journal init and shutdown"),
journal init later than before, it makes NULL pointer access in free
routine.

Crash flow:

ocfs2_fill_super
 + ocfs2_mount_volume
 |  + ocfs2_dlm_init //fail & return, osb->journal is NULL.
 |  + ...
 |  + ocfs2_check_volume //no chance to init osb->journal
 |
 + ...
 + ocfs2_dismount_volume
    ocfs2_release_system_inodes
      ...
       evict
        ...
         ocfs2_clear_inode
          ocfs2_checkpoint_inode
           ocfs2_ci_fully_checkpointed
            time_after(journal->j_trans_id, ci->ci_last_trans)
             + journal is empty, crash!

For fixing, there are three solutions:

1> Partly revert commit da5e7c87827e8

   For avoiding kernel crash, this make sense for us.  We only
   concerned whether there has any non-system inode access before dlm
   init.  The answer is NO.  And all journal replay/recovery handling
   happen after dlm & journal init done.  So this method is not graceful
   but workable.

2> Add osb->journal check in free inode routine (eg ocfs2_clear_inode)

   The fix code is special for mounting phase, but it will continue
   working after mounting stage.  In another word, this method adds
   useless code in normal inode free flow.

3> Do directly free inode in mounting phase

   This method is brutal/complex and may introduce unsafe code,
   currently maintainer didn't like.

At last, we chose method <1> and did partly reverted job.  We reverted
journal init codes, and kept cleanup codes flow.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220424130952.2436-1-heming.zhao@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220424130952.2436-2-heming.zhao@suse.com
Fixes: da5e7c87827e8 ("ocfs2: cleanup journal init and shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index 5739dc301569..bb116c39b581 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct inode *ocfs2_iget(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 blkno, unsigned flags,
 	struct inode *inode = NULL;
 	struct super_block *sb = osb->sb;
 	struct ocfs2_find_inode_args args;
+	journal_t *journal = osb->journal->j_journal;
 
 	trace_ocfs2_iget_begin((unsigned long long)blkno, flags,
 			       sysfile_type);
@@ -171,11 +172,10 @@ struct inode *ocfs2_iget(struct ocfs2_super *osb, u64 blkno, unsigned flags,
 	 * part of the transaction - the inode could have been reclaimed and
 	 * now it is reread from disk.
 	 */
-	if (osb->journal) {
+	if (journal) {
 		transaction_t *transaction;
 		tid_t tid;
 		struct ocfs2_inode_info *oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
-		journal_t *journal = osb->journal->j_journal;
 
 		read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 		if (journal->j_running_transaction)