ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference when journal restart fails
Currently when journal restart fails, we'll have the h_transaction of the handle set to NULL to indicate that the handle has been effectively aborted. We handle this situation quietly in the jbd2_journal_stop() and just free the handle and exit because everything else has been done before we attempted (and failed) to restart the journal. Unfortunately there are a number of problems with that approach introduced with commit 41a5b913 "jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails" First of all in ext4 jbd2_journal_stop() will be called through __ext4_journal_stop() where we would try to get a hold of the superblock by dereferencing h_transaction which in this case would lead to NULL pointer dereference and crash. In addition we're going to free the handle regardless of the refcount which is bad as well, because others up the call chain will still reference the handle so we might potentially reference already freed memory. Moreo...
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