Patch name: md-fix-null-pointer-deref.patch Fix NULL pointer dereference. When the module parameter 'start_dirty_degraded' is set, the RAID is not in sync, and a drive needs to be rebuilt, there will be BUG() called when finished because 'sysfs_notify_dirent' is called with a NULL argument. (rdev->sysfs_state is not always set.) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/md.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c @@ -7311,6 +7311,8 @@ static int __init md_init(void) raid_table_header = register_sysctl_table(raid_root_table); md_geninit(); + if (start_dirty_degraded) + printk(KERN_INFO "md: start_dirty_degraded set\n"); return 0; err_mdp: Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/raid5.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -5339,7 +5339,7 @@ static int raid5_spare_active(mddev_t *m && !test_bit(Faulty, &tmp->rdev->flags) && !test_and_set_bit(In_sync, &tmp->rdev->flags)) { count++; - sysfs_notify_dirent(tmp->rdev->sysfs_state); + sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(tmp->rdev->sysfs_state); } } spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags); -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel