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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:53:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC1FC41.2060807@suse.de> (raw)

While testing Swap over NFS patchset, I noticed an oops that was triggered
during swapon. Investigating further, the NULL pointer deference is due to the
SSD device check/optimization in the swapon code that assumes s_bdev could never
be NULL.

inode->i_sb->s_bdev could be NULL in a few cases. For e.g. one such case is
loopback NFS mount, there could be others as well. Fix this by ensuring s_bdev
is not NULL before we try to deference s_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4de7f02..a1bc6b9 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1974,12 +1974,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 		goto bad_swap;
 	}
 
-	if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
-		p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
-		p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+	if (p->bdev) {
+		if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
+			p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
+			p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+		}
+		if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
+			p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
 	}
-	if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
-		p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
 
 	mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 12:23 Suresh Jayaraman [this message]
2009-09-30  6:57 ` [PATCH] swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL Jens Axboe
2009-10-01 10:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-01 11:30   ` Suresh Jayaraman
2009-10-01 11:53     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-01 12:07       ` Suresh Jayaraman
2009-10-06 21:03         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-07  3:55           ` Suresh Jayaraman
2009-10-21 12:43             ` Suresh Jayaraman

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