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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux-Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-NFS <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] Avoid dereferencing bd_disk during swap_entry_free for network storage
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:17:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334578675-23445-12-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334578675-23445-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

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 <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-16 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16 12:17 [PATCH 00/11] Swap-over-NFS without deadlocking V3 Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 01/11] netvm: Prevent a stream-specific deadlock Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 02/11] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: Methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: Add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages Mel Gorman
2012-05-01 22:53   ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-03 14:14     ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: swap: Implement generic handler for swap_activate Mel Gorman
2012-05-01 22:57   ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-03 14:57     ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: Add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of kernel addresses for I/O Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 07/11] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 08/11] nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 13:10   ` Fred Isaman
2012-04-16 13:44     ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 15:03       ` Fred Isaman
2012-04-17 12:40     ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 09/11] nfs: enable swap on NFS Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` [PATCH 10/11] nfs: Prevent page allocator recursions with swap over NFS Mel Gorman
2012-04-16 12:17 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-06 22:56 [PATCH 00/11] Swap-over-NFS without deadlocking V2 Mel Gorman
2012-02-06 22:56 ` [PATCH 11/11] Avoid dereferencing bd_disk during swap_entry_free for network storage Mel Gorman

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