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Commit 1d0c3924 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: fix potential race between online resizing and write operations



During an online resize an array of pointers to buffer heads gets
replaced so it can get enlarged.  If there is a racing block
allocation or deallocation which uses the old array, and the old array
has gotten reused this can lead to a GPF or some other random kernel
memory getting modified.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206443
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200221053458.730016-2-tytso@mit.edu
Reported-by: default avatarSuraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent 9424ef56
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