Re: [PATCH for-6.6/block] blk-cgroup: Fix NULL deref caused by blkg_policy_data being installed before init

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:56:23 -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:

blk-iocost sometimes causes the following crash:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000e0
  ...
  RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0x17/0x30
  Code: be 01 02 00 00 e8 79 38 39 ff 31 d2 89 d0 5d c3 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 65 ff 05 48 d0 34 7e b9 01 00 00 00 31 c0 <f0> 0f b1 0f 75 02 5d c3 89 c6 e8 ea 04 00 00 5d c3 0f 1f 84 00 00
  RSP: 0018:ffffc900023b3d40 EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000000e0 RCX: 0000000000000001
  RDX: ffffc900023b3d20 RSI: ffffc900023b3cf0 RDI: 00000000000000e0
  RBP: ffffc900023b3d40 R08: ffffc900023b3c10 R09: 0000000000000003
  R10: 0000000000000064 R11: 000000000000000a R12: ffff888102337000
  R13: fffffffffffffff2 R14: ffff88810af408c8 R15: ffff8881070c3600
  FS:  00007faaaf364fc0(0000) GS:ffff88842fdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000000000e0 CR3: 00000001097b1000 CR4: 0000000000350ea0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ioc_weight_write+0x13d/0x410
   cgroup_file_write+0x7a/0x130
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xf5/0x170
   vfs_write+0x298/0x370
   ksys_write+0x5f/0xb0
   __x64_sys_write+0x1b/0x20
   do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

[...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] blk-cgroup: Fix NULL deref caused by blkg_policy_data being installed before init
      commit: ec14a87ee1999b19d8b7ed0fa95fea80644624ae

Best regards,
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Jens Axboe