From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755340Ab2ALUPW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:15:22 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:53867 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755315Ab2ALUPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:15:13 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 9TWfcqnjnDpokFre2Qtt57pfO0qMflySDMp4uYVhy+Mp 1326399311 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:15:02 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Paul Taysom Cc: Paul Taysom , Mandeep Baines , Jens Axboe , Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks Message-ID: <20120112201502.GA15190@kroah.com> References: <1326398262-26660-1-git-send-email-taysom@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1326398262-26660-1-git-send-email-taysom@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:57:42AM -0800, Paul Taysom wrote: > From: Paul Taysom > > A USB stick with a ext file system on it, would occasionally crash > when the stick was pulled. > > The problem was a timer was being set on the Backing Device Interface, > bdi, after the USB device had been removed and the bdi had been > unregistered. The bdi would then be later reinitialized by zeroing > the timer without removing from the timer from the timer queue. > This would eventually result in a kernel crash (NULL ptr dereference). > > When the bdi is unregistered, the dev field is set to NULL. This > indication is used by bdi_unregister to only unregister the device > once. > > Fix: When the backing device is invalidated, the mapping backing_dev_info > should be redirected to the default_backing_dev_info. > > Created 3 USB sticks with ext2, ext4 and one with both apple and DOS > file systems on it. Inserted and removed USB sticks many times in random > order. With out the bug fix, the kernel would soon crash. With the fix, > it did not. Ran on both stumpy and amd64-generic. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom > Downstream-bug-report: http://crosbug.com/24165 > Cc: Mandeep Baines > Cc: Greg KH > Cc: Jens Axboe > Cc: Theodore Tso > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: > Cc: > Cc: Alexander Viro > Cc: > --- > fs/block_dev.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c > index afe74dd..9f9b617 100644 > --- a/fs/block_dev.c > +++ b/fs/block_dev.c > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -/* > +nvalid/* > * linux/fs/block_dev.c > * > * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds Minor nit, I don't think you ment the first line of the file to be changed this way.... greg k-h