Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] block: xen-blkfront: Fix possible NULL ptr dereference

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 09/11/13 16:36, Felipe Pena wrote:
> In the blkif_release function the bdget_disk() call might returns
> a NULL ptr which might be dereferenced on bdev->bd_openers checking
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> index a4660bb..7bb1552 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> @@ -1959,6 +1959,9 @@ static void blkif_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
>  
>  	bdev = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
>  
> +	if (!bdev)
> +		goto out_mutex;

Is this actually possible? By looking at blkfront code, it seems like we
don't remove the device if it is still open, so maybe this should be a
BUG_ON instead of failing silently.

Roger.