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Subject[PATCH 7/7] blktrace: avoid accessing NULL bdev->bd_disk
bdev->bd_disk can be NULL, if the block device is not opened.

Try this against an unmounted partition, and you'll see NULL dereference:
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda5/enable

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 46e0cfe..37095d9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -1362,6 +1362,14 @@ static int blk_str2act_mask(const char *str)
return mask;
}

+static request_queue *blk_trace_get_queue(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ if (bdev->bd_disk == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ return bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+}
+
static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
@@ -1376,9 +1384,10 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
if (bdev == NULL)
goto out_unlock_kernel;

- q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+ q = blk_trace_get_queue(bdev);
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;
+
mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);

if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) {
@@ -1435,7 +1444,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
if (bdev == NULL)
goto out_unlock_kernel;

- q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+ q = blk_trace_get_queue(bdev);
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;

--
1.5.4.rc3


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