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Commit 91af8300 authored by Coly Li's avatar Coly Li Committed by Jens Axboe
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bcache: check ca->alloc_thread initialized before wake up it



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: default avatarColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarJorg Bornschein <jb@capsec.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 58f913dc
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