On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:21:12PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote: > There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case > kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. > > Fixes: bc082a55d25c ("bcache: fix inaccurate io state for detached bcache devices") > Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c > index 1507041..a50afa4 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c > +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c > @@ -1094,6 +1094,8 @@ static void detached_dev_do_request(struct bcache_device *d, struct bio *bio) > * which would call closure_get(&dc->disk.cl) > */ > ddip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct detached_dev_io_private), GFP_NOIO); > + if (!ddip) > + return; > ddip->d = d; > ddip->start_time = jiffies; > ddip->bi_end_io = bio->bi_end_io; This should be using a mempool/bioset... just returning from a make_request function is not correct, that's a serious bug - you're just dropping an IO on the floor, which is going to cause whatever submitted that IO to hang.