From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Bader , Kent Overstreet , Jens Axboe Subject: [PATCH 3.14 011/130] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:44:22 -0800 Message-Id: <20160301234500.164245674@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160301234459.768886030@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160301234459.768886030@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stefan Bader commit 8d16ce540c94c9d366eb36fc91b7154d92d6397b upstream. Added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into writeback_running. This change adds the same check before trying to wake up the thread for that case. Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader Cc: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static inline bool should_writeback(stru static inline void bch_writeback_queue(struct cached_dev *dc) { - wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread); + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread)) + wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread); } static inline void bch_writeback_add(struct cached_dev *dc)