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Coly Li authored
commit 91af8300 upstream. In bcache code, sysfs entries are created before all resources get allocated, e.g. allocation thread of a cache set. There is posibility for NULL pointer deference if a resource is accessed but which is not initialized yet. Indeed Jorg Bornschein catches one on cache set allocation thread and gets a kernel oops. The reason for this bug is, when bch_bucket_alloc() is called during cache set registration and attaching, ca->alloc_thread is not properly allocated and initialized yet, call wake_up_process() on ca->alloc_thread triggers NULL pointer deference failure. A simple and fast fix is, before waking up ca->alloc_thread, checking whether it is allocated, and only wake up ca->alloc_thread when it is not NULL. Signed-off-by:
Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Reported-by:
Jorg Bornschein <jb@capsec.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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