From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx101.postini.com [74.125.245.101]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8E4A6B0112 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:18:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 11/11] Avoid dereferencing bd_disk during swap_entry_free for network storage Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:17:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1334578675-23445-12-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1334578675-23445-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1334578675-23445-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 , Mel Gorman 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 --- mm/swapfile.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 80b3415..d85d842 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -547,7 +547,6 @@ 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) @@ -557,9 +556,11 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p, swap_list.next = p->type; nr_swap_pages++; p->inuse_pages--; - 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; -- 1.7.9.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org