Commit 761a004b authored by Anders Roxell's avatar Anders Roxell Committed by Stefan Bader

writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818797

[ Upstream commit 347a28b5 ]

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: 52ebea74 ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Co-developed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent 4ff73023
......@@ -229,6 +229,14 @@ 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);
}
......
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