bcache: check ca->alloc_thread initialized before wake up it
authorColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:35:29 +0000 (16:35 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:39:03 +0000 (08:39 +0000)
commit770e10817e0980b61fa04f99432b1482242d65b4
treea770b1f62e9c18b0ce0ef9b6f5b89e61dd81bc54
parenta1e25420a47a55784f277363ee0b76b2e2ea981d
bcache: check ca->alloc_thread initialized before wake up it

commit 91af8300d9c1d7c6b6a2fd754109e08d4798b8d8 upstream.

In bcache code, sysfs entries are created before all resources get
allocated, e.g. allocation thread of a cache set.

There is posibility for NULL pointer deference if a resource is accessed
but which is not initialized yet. Indeed Jorg Bornschein catches one on
cache set allocation thread and gets a kernel oops.

The reason for this bug is, when bch_bucket_alloc() is called during
cache set registration and attaching, ca->alloc_thread is not properly
allocated and initialized yet, call wake_up_process() on ca->alloc_thread
triggers NULL pointer deference failure. A simple and fast fix is, before
waking up ca->alloc_thread, checking whether it is allocated, and only
wake up ca->alloc_thread when it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jorg Bornschein <jb@capsec.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c