When people set a writeback percent via sysfs file, /sys/block/bcache<N>/bcache/writeback_percent current code directly sets BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING to dc->disk.flags and schedules kworker dc->writeback_rate_update.
If there is no cache set attached to, the writebac kernel thread is not running indeed, running dc->writeback_rate_update does not make sense and may cause NULL pointer deference when reference cache set pointer inside update_writeback_rate().
This patch checks whether the cache set point (dc->disk.c) is NULL in sysfs interface handler, and only set BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING and schedule dc->writeback_rate_update when dc->disk.c is not NULL (it means the cache device is attached to a cache set).
This problem might be introduced from initial bcache commit, but commit 3fd47bfe55b0 ("bcache: stop dc->writeback_rate_update properly") changes part of the orignal code piece, so I add 'Fixes: 3fd47bfe55b0' to indicate from which commit this patch can be applied.
Fixes: 3fd47bfe55b0 ("bcache: stop dc->writeback_rate_update properly") Reported-by: Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Coly Li colyli@suse.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c index 129031663cc8..eb678e43ac00 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c @@ -430,8 +430,13 @@ STORE(bch_cached_dev) bch_writeback_queue(dc); }
+ /* + * Only set BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING when cached device attached to + * a cache set, otherwise it doesn't make sense. + */ if (attr == &sysfs_writeback_percent) - if (!test_and_set_bit(BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING, &dc->disk.flags)) + if ((dc->disk.c != NULL) && + (!test_and_set_bit(BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING, &dc->disk.flags))) schedule_delayed_work(&dc->writeback_rate_update, dc->writeback_rate_update_seconds * HZ);