On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:44:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > static inline int jbd2_handle_buffer_credits(handle_t *handle) > { > - return handle->h_buffer_credits; > + journal_t *journal = handle->h_transaction->t_journal; > + > + return handle->h_buffer_credits - > + DIV_ROUND_UP(handle->h_revoke_credits_requested, > + journal->j_revoke_records_per_block); > } This patch is causing a crash with 'kvm-xfstests -c dioread_nolock ext4/024'. Looks like this code incorrectly assumes that h_transaction is always valid rather than the other member of the union, h_journal. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000614 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 105 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-00020-gfdc3ef882a5d #18 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20191013_105130-anatol 04/01/2014 Workqueue: ext4-rsv-conversion ext4_end_io_rsv_work RIP: 0010:jbd2_handle_buffer_credits include/linux/jbd2.h:1656 [inline] RIP: 0010:__ext4_journal_start_reserved+0x38/0x1f0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:122 Code: 83 ec 10 48 81 ff ff 0f 00 00 89 75 d4 89 55 d0 0f 86 f5 00 00 00 48 8b 07 49 89 fc 48 8b 5d 08 4c 8b a8 40 07 00 6 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000457d40 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 0000000000000038 RBX: ffffffff812e68fb RCX: 000000000000000c RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 000000000000137f RDI: ffff8880779c5468 RBP: ffffc90000457d78 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000001000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880779c5468 R13: ffff88807b726000 R14: ffff8880779ad9e8 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000614 CR3: 000000007a0dd000 CR4: 00000000003406e0 Call Trace: ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x8b/0x250 fs/ext4/extents.c:4991 ext4_end_io fs/ext4/page-io.c:152 [inline] ext4_do_flush_completed_IO fs/ext4/page-io.c:226 [inline] ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0x11a/0x1f0 fs/ext4/page-io.c:240 process_one_work+0x227/0x5b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0x4b/0x3c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x125/0x140 kernel/kthread.c:255 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352 CR2: 0000000000000614 ---[ end trace d8eaf4e1225480d5 ]---