mddev->bitmap gets clearred before the writeback daemon is stopped. So the write_back daemon needs to be careful not to dereference the 'bitmap' if it is NULL. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/bitmap.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c --- ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~ 2005-08-29 16:32:20.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c 2005-08-29 16:46:50.000000000 +1000 @@ -1156,6 +1156,9 @@ static void bitmap_writeback_daemon(mdde err = -EINTR; goto out; } + if (bitmap == NULL) + /* about to be stopped. */ + return; PRINTK("%s: bitmap writeback daemon woke up...\n", bmname(bitmap)); /* wait on bitmap page writebacks */ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html