On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:35:04PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote: > There are a number of places in dax.c that look up the struct block_device > associated with an inode. Previously this was done by just using > inode->i_sb->s_bdev. This is correct for inodes that exist within the > filesystems supported by DAX (ext2, ext4 & XFS), but when running DAX > against raw block devices this value is NULL. This causes NULL pointer > dereferences when these block_device pointers are used. It's also wrong for an XFS file system with a RT device.. > +#define DAX_BDEV(inode) (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) ? I_BDEV(inode) \ > + : inode->i_sb->s_bdev) .. but this isn't going to fix it. You must use a bdev returned by get_blocks or a similar file system method. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
