This is a workaround to fix a null derefence crash: [c00000000b01f840] c00000000b01f880 (unreliable) [c00000000b01f880] c000000000769a3c bdev_evict_inode+0x21c/0x370 [c00000000b01f8c0] c00000000070bacc evict+0x11c/0x230 [c00000000b01f900] c00000000070c138 iput+0x2a8/0x4a0 [c00000000b01f970] c0000000006ff030 dentry_unlink_inode+0x220/0x250 [c00000000b01f9b0] c0000000007001c0 __dentry_kill+0x190/0x320 [c00000000b01fa00] c000000000701fb8 dput+0x5e8/0x860 [c00000000b01fa80] c000000000705848 shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x58/0x100 [c00000000b01fb00] c0000000006cf864 generic_shutdown_super+0x54/0x200 [c00000000b01fb80] c0000000006cfd48 kill_anon_super+0x38/0x60 [c00000000b01fbc0] c0000000006d12cc deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x110 [c00000000b01fbf0] c0000000006d13bc deactivate_super+0x9c/0xc0 [c00000000b01fc20] c00000000071a340 cleanup_mnt+0x1b0/0x250 [c00000000b01fc80] c000000000278fa8 task_work_run+0xf8/0x180 [c00000000b01fcd0] c00000000002b4ac do_notify_resume+0x4dc/0x5d0 [c00000000b01fda0] c00000000004ba0c syscall_exit_prepare+0x28c/0x370 [c00000000b01fe10] c00000000000e06c system_call_common+0xfc/0x27c --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000000010034890 Is this fixed properly already somewhere? Thanks, Fixes: e6cb53827ed6 ("block: initialize struct block_device in bdev_alloc") --- fs/block_dev.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 3e5b02f6606c..86fdc28d565e 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -792,8 +792,10 @@ static void bdev_free_inode(struct inode *inode) static void init_once(void *data) { struct bdev_inode *ei = data; + struct block_device *bdev = &ei->bdev; inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode); + bdev->bd_bdi = &noop_backing_dev_info; } static void bdev_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) -- 2.17.1