The patch below does not apply to the 5.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 6bd87eec23cbc9ed222bed0f5b5b02bf300e9a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 14:47:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info

Cache a copy of the name for the life time of the backing_dev_info structure so that we can reference it even after unregistering.

Fixes: 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears") Reported-by: Yufen Yu yuyufen@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h index ee577a83cfe6..7367150f962a 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info { wait_queue_head_t wb_waitq;

struct device *dev; + char dev_name[64]; struct device *owner;

struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer; diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index c2c44c89ee5d..efc5b83acd2d 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -938,7 +938,8 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args) if (bdi->dev) /* The driver needs to use separate queues per device */ return 0;

- dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args); + vsnprintf(bdi->dev_name, sizeof(bdi->dev_name), fmt, args); + dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name); if (IS_ERR(dev)) return PTR_ERR(dev);

@@ -1047,7 +1048,7 @@ const char *bdi_dev_name(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { if (!bdi || !bdi->dev) return bdi_unknown_name; - return dev_name(bdi->dev); + return bdi->dev_name; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_dev_name);