[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 084/218] bcache: fix cache_set_flush() NULL pointer dereference on OOM

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Mar 31 20:14:57 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Wheeler <git at linux.ewheeler.net>

commit f8b11260a445169989d01df75d35af0f56178f95 upstream.

When bch_cache_set_alloc() fails to kzalloc the cache_set, the
asyncronous closure handling tries to dereference a cache_set that
hadn't yet been allocated inside of cache_set_flush() which is called
by __cache_set_unregister() during cleanup.  This appears to happen only
during an OOM condition on bcache_register.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache at linux.ewheeler.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index d7ce93e..eff6144 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -1398,6 +1398,9 @@ static void cache_set_flush(struct closure *cl)
 	struct btree *b;
 	unsigned i;
 
+	if (!c)
+		closure_return(cl);
+
 	bch_cache_accounting_destroy(&c->accounting);
 
 	kobject_put(&c->internal);
-- 
2.7.4





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