For gendisk that are not live or their partitions, the bd_holder_dir
pointer is not valid and the kobject might not have been allocated
yet or freed already. Check that the disk is live before creating the
linkage and error out otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
block/holder.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/holder.c b/block/holder.c
index a8c355b9d0806..a8806bbed2112 100644
--- a/block/holder.c
+++ b/block/holder.c
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk)
return -EINVAL;
mutex_lock(&disk->open_mutex);
+ /* bd_holder_dir is only valid for live disks */
+ if (!disk_live(bdev->bd_disk)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
WARN_ON_ONCE(!bdev->bd_holder);
--
2.30.2
