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authorAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>2018-10-30 12:35:45 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-01-26 09:38:32 +0100
commitdb16eb55395dc14da29a3e385140f195e57be546 (patch)
treed5f302e62a7828c2655442a4c89159e6f1b3f7ed
parentde390c264e9c31ab3b8c1be0e4db464c3da9a5c5 (diff)
writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi
[ Upstream commit 347a28b586802d09604a149c1a1f6de5dccbe6fa ] This happened while running in qemu-system-aarch64, the AMBA PL011 UART driver when enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE. arch_initcall(pl011_init) came before subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init), devtmpfs' handle_remove() crashes because the reference count is a NULL pointer only because wb->bdi hasn't been initialized yet. Rework so that wb_put have an extra check if wb->bdi before decrement wb->refcnt and also add a WARN_ON_ONCE to get a warning if it happens again in other drivers. Fixes: 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks") Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
index 32728ff8095c..4ea779b25a51 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -225,6 +225,14 @@ static inline void wb_get(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
*/
static inline void wb_put(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
{
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!wb->bdi)) {
+ /*
+ * A driver bug might cause a file to be removed before bdi was
+ * initialized.
+ */
+ return;
+ }
+
if (wb != &wb->bdi->wb)
percpu_ref_put(&wb->refcnt);
}