On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 10:58:39AM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> And AFAICT the root inode on >> bdev superblock can get only to bdev_evict_inode() and bdev_free_inode(). >> Looking at bdev_evict_inode() the only thing that's used there from struct >> block_device is really bd_bdi. bdev_free_inode() will also access >> bdev->bd_stats and bdev->bd_meta_info. So we need to at least initialize >> these to NULL as well. > > These are all NULL. > >> IMO the most logical place for all these >> initializations is in bdev_alloc_inode()... > > > This works. We can also check for NULL where it crashes. But I do not know > the code to make an informed decision...
The root inode is the special case, so I think moving the the initializers for everything touched in ->evict_inode and ->free_inode to bdev_alloc_inode makes most sense. Alexey, do you want to respin or should I send a patch?
