From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:22:22 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] direct-io: Prevent NULL pointer access in submit_page_section Message-ID: <20171009162222.GW21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20171009091318.26714-1-agruenba@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171009091318.26714-1-agruenba@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 11:13:18AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > In the code added to function submit_page_section by commit b1058b981, > sdio->bio can currently be NULL when calling dio_bio_submit. This then > leads to a NULL pointer access in dio_bio_submit, so check for a NULL > bio in submit_page_section before trying to submit it instead. > > Fixes xfstest generic/250 on gfs2. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara How far back in -stable should it go? I'm fine with the patch, but I'd rather have accurate Cc: stable in commit message...