3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> commit 977b7e3a52a7421ad33a393a38ece59f3d41c2fa upstream. When a SD card is hot removed without umount, del_gendisk() will call bdi_unregister() without destroying/freeing it. This leaves the bdi in the bdi->dev = NULL, bdi->wb.task = NULL, bdi->bdi_list removed state. When sync(2) gets the bdi before bdi_unregister() and calls bdi_queue_work() after the unregister, trace_writeback_queue will be dereferencing the NULL bdi->dev. Fix it with a simple test for NULL. LKML-reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/346 Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <[email protected]> Tested-by: Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h +++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_work_class __field(int, for_background) ), TP_fast_assign( - strncpy(__entry->name, dev_name(bdi->dev), 32); + struct device *dev = bdi->dev; + if (!dev) + dev = default_backing_dev_info.dev; + strncpy(__entry->name, dev_name(dev), 32); __entry->nr_pages = work->nr_pages; __entry->sb_dev = work->sb ? work->sb->s_dev : 0; __entry->sync_mode = work->sync_mode; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
