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From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>,
	Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Cc: ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode()
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 21:16:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260531131645.3650299-1-joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)

During unmount, ocfs2_journal_shutdown() frees the journal and sets
osb->journal to NULL. Later, when VFS evicts remaining cached inodes,
ocfs2_evict_inode() -> ocfs2_clear_inode() -> ocfs2_checkpoint_inode()
-> ocfs2_ci_fully_checkpointed() dereferences osb->journal, causing a
NULL pointer dereference.

Fix this by adding a NULL check for osb->journal in
ocfs2_checkpoint_inode(). If the journal is NULL, it has already been
fully flushed and destroyed during shutdown, so there is nothing to
checkpoint.

Reported-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Fixes: da5e7c87827e ("ocfs2: cleanup journal init and shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
---
 fs/ocfs2/journal.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.h b/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
index 6397170f302f..f8b3b2a3d630 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ static inline void ocfs2_checkpoint_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	if (ocfs2_mount_local(osb))
 		return;
 
+	if (!osb->journal)
+		return;
+
 	if (!ocfs2_ci_fully_checkpointed(INODE_CACHE(inode))) {
 		/* WARNING: This only kicks off a single
 		 * checkpoint. If someone races you and adds more
-- 
2.39.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-31 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-31 13:16 Joseph Qi [this message]
2026-06-01  3:32 ` Heming Zhao
2026-06-01  6:50   ` Joseph Qi
2026-06-01  7:41     ` Heming Zhao
2026-06-01  7:42 ` Heming Zhao

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