From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Jan Kara To: Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Tetsuo Handa , Tejun Heo Subject: [PATCH] bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn() Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 18:26:26 +0200 Message-Id: <20180503162626.27753-1-jack@suse.cz> List-ID: Syzbot has reported that it can hit a NULL pointer dereference in wb_workfn() due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. This indicates that wb_workfn() was called for an already unregistered bdi which should not happen as wb_shutdown() called from bdi_unregister() should make sure all pending writeback works are completed before bdi is unregistered. Except that wb_workfn() itself can requeue the work with: mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0); and if this happens while wb_shutdown() is waiting in: flush_delayed_work(&wb->dwork); the dwork can get executed after wb_shutdown() has finished and bdi_unregister() has cleared wb->bdi->dev. Make wb_workfn() use wakeup_wb() for requeueing the work which takes all the necessary precautions against racing with bdi unregistration. CC: Tetsuo Handa CC: Tejun Heo Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977 Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 47d7c151fcba..471d863958bc 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work) } if (!list_empty(&wb->work_list)) - mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0); + wb_wakeup(wb); else if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval) wb_wakeup_delayed(wb); -- 2.13.6