ffe5ebdf81
commit 8301c719a2bd131436438e49130ee381d30933f5 upstream.
After commit c3aab9a0bd91 ("mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if
mapping has no dirty pages"), the following null pointer dereference has
been reported on nilfs2:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000a8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
...
RIP: 0010:percpu_counter_add_batch+0xa/0x60
...
Call Trace:
__test_set_page_writeback+0x2d3/0x330
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x10d3/0x2110 [nilfs2]
nilfs_segctor_construct+0x168/0x260 [nilfs2]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x127/0x3b0 [nilfs2]
kthread+0xf8/0x130
...
This crash turned out to be caused by set_page_writeback() call for
segment summary buffers at nilfs_segctor_prepare_write().
set_page_writeback() can call inc_wb_stat(inode_to_wb(inode),
WB_WRITEBACK) where inode_to_wb(inode) is NULL if the inode of
underlying block device does not have an associated wb.
This fixes the issue by calling inode_attach_wb() in advance to ensure
to associate the bdev inode with its wb.
Fixes: c3aab9a0bd91 ("mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages")
Reported-by: Walton Hoops <me@waltonhoops.com>
Reported-by: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
Reported-by: ARAI Shun-ichi <hermes@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Hideki EIRAKU <hdk1983@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.4+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200608.011819.1399059588922299158.konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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