Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2014-12-02

Re: [PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

From: Slava Pestov <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-19 18:03:14
Also in: lkml

Thanks, this is now in our development branch.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Stefan Bader
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
commit a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81
    bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode

added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being
attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into
writeback_running. This change  adds the same check before trying to
wake up the thread for that case.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <redacted>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
index 0a9dab1..073a042 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static inline bool should_writeback(struct cached_dev *dc, struct bio *bio,

 static inline void bch_writeback_queue(struct cached_dev *dc)
 {
-       wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
+       if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread))
+               wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
 }

 static inline void bch_writeback_add(struct cached_dev *dc)
--
1.9.1

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