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[PATCH 3/4] block: Make del_gendisk() safer for disks without queues

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2017-03-09 10:16:23
Also in: linux-scsi
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

Commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()"
added disk->queue dereference to del_gendisk(). Although del_gendisk()
is not supposed to be called without disk->queue valid and
blk_unregister_queue() warns in that case, this change will make it oops
instead. Return to the old more robust behavior of just warning when
del_gendisk() gets called for gendisk with disk->queue being NULL.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <redacted>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 block/genhd.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index b26a5ea115d0..94f323842b52 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -681,12 +681,16 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
 
 	sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
-	/*
-	 * Unregister bdi before releasing device numbers (as they can get
-	 * reused and we'd get clashes in sysfs).
-	 */
-	bdi_unregister(disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
-	blk_unregister_queue(disk);
+	if (disk->queue) {
+		/*
+		 * Unregister bdi before releasing device numbers (as they can
+		 * get reused and we'd get clashes in sysfs).
+		 */
+		bdi_unregister(disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
+		blk_unregister_queue(disk);
+	} else {
+		WARN_ON(1);
+	}
 	blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
 
 	part_stat_set_all(&disk->part0, 0);
-- 
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