From patchwork Thu Jul 12 06:41:06 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 170553 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A302C020C for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:42:42 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758846Ab2GLGmU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:42:20 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40150 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758795Ab2GLGl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:41:27 -0400 Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B931DA4E82; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:41:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , Linux-NFS , LKML , David Miller , Trond Myklebust , Neil Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Christie , Eric B Munson , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 12/12] Avoid dereferencing bd_disk during swap_entry_free for network storage Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:41:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1342075266-29593-13-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.2 In-Reply-To: <1342075266-29593-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1342075266-29593-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Commit [b3a27d: swap: Add swap slot free callback to block_device_operations] dereferences p->bdev->bd_disk but this is a NULL dereference if using swap-over-NFS. This patch checks SWP_BLKDEV on the swap_info_struct before dereferencing. With reference to this callback, Christoph Hellwig stated "Please just remove the callback entirely. It has no user outside the staging tree and was added clearly against the rules for that staging tree". This would also be my preference but there was not an obvious way of keeping zram in staging/ happy. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel --- mm/swapfile.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 1d77b13..f4c802d 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -549,7 +549,6 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p, /* free if no reference */ if (!usage) { - struct gendisk *disk = p->bdev->bd_disk; if (offset < p->lowest_bit) p->lowest_bit = offset; if (offset > p->highest_bit) @@ -560,9 +559,11 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p, nr_swap_pages++; p->inuse_pages--; frontswap_invalidate_page(p->type, offset); - if ((p->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) && - disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) - disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify(p->bdev, offset); + if (p->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) { + struct gendisk *disk = p->bdev->bd_disk; + if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) + disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify(p->bdev, offset); + } } return usage;