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The buffer_head (frames[0].bh) and it's corresping page can be potentially free'd once brelse() is done inside the for loop but before the for loop exits in dx_release(). It can be free'd in another context, when the page cache is flushed via drop_caches_sysctl_handler(). This results into below data abort when accessing info->indirect_levels in dx_release(). Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc17ac3e01e Call trace: dx_release+0x70/0x90 ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x2d4/0x300 ext4_readdir+0x244/0x6f8 iterate_dir+0xbc/0x160 SyS_getdents64+0x94/0x174 Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.