Re: [PATCH] [libata] scsi: fix Null pointer dereference on disk error

On 12/13/2012 03:12 AM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:

Following oops were observed when disk error happened:

[ 4272.896937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
[ 4272.896939] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 4272.896942] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 5a de a7 00 00 08 00
[ 4272.896951] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5955239
[ 4291.574947] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 4291.658305] IP: [] ahci_activity_show+0x1/0x40
[ 4291.730090] PGD 76dbbc067 PUD 6c4fba067 PMD 0
[ 4291.783408] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 4291.822100] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/sw_activity
[ 4291.934235] CPU 9
[ 4291.958301] Pid: 27942, comm: hwinfo ......

ata_scsi_find_dev could return NULL, so ata_scsi_activity_{show,store} should check if atadev is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <redacted>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <redacted>
Cc: James Bottomley <redacted>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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  drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c |    6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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