writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi
authorAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:35:45 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:37:01 +0000 (09:37 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 347a28b586802d09604a149c1a1f6de5dccbe6fa ]

This happened while running in qemu-system-aarch64, the AMBA PL011 UART
driver when enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
arch_initcall(pl011_init) came before subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init),
devtmpfs' handle_remove() crashes because the reference count is a NULL
pointer only because wb->bdi hasn't been initialized yet.

Rework so that wb_put have an extra check if wb->bdi before decrement
wb->refcnt and also add a WARN_ON_ONCE to get a warning if it happens again
in other drivers.

Fixes: 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

index 3c1beffc861a64693f0711c9f4830fc29c5f6331..19240379637fe5b39ca42461274b2f2ecc433c3d 100644 (file)
@@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ static inline void wb_get(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
  */
 static inline void wb_put(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
 {
+       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!wb->bdi)) {
+               /*
+                * A driver bug might cause a file to be removed before bdi was
+                * initialized.
+                */
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (wb != &wb->bdi->wb)
                percpu_ref_put(&wb->refcnt);
 }