A user has encountered a NULL pointer kernel oops in btrfs when
encountering media errors. The problem has been identified
as an unhandled NULL pointer returned from find_get_page().
This modification simply checks for a NULL page, and returns
with an error if found (the extent_range_uptodate() function
returns 1 on errors).
After testing this patch, the user reported that the error with
the NULL pointer oops was solved. However, there is still a
remaining problem with a thread becoming stuck in
wait_on_page_locked(page) in the read_extent_buffer_pages(...)
function in extent_io.c
for (i = start_i; i < num_pages; i++) {
page = extent_buffer_page(eb, i);
wait_on_page_locked(page);
if (!PageUptodate(page))
ret = -EIO;
}
This patch leaves the issue with the locked page yet to be resolved.
Signed-off-by: Mitch Harder <[email protected]>
---
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 9d09a4f..fcf77e1 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -3909,6 +3909,8 @@ int extent_range_uptodate(struct extent_io_tree *tree,
while (start <= end) {
index = start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
page = find_get_page(tree->mapping, index);
+ if (!page)
+ return 1;
uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
page_cache_release(page);
if (!uptodate) {
--
1.7.3.4
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