Willy,
On 1 November 2017 at 22:25, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 899f0429c7d3eed886406cd72182bee3b96aa1f9 upstream.
>
> In the code added to function submit_page_section by commit b1058b981,
> sdio->bio can currently be NULL when calling dio_bio_submit. This then
> leads to a NULL pointer access in dio_bio_submit, so check for a NULL
> bio in submit_page_section before trying to submit it instead.
>
> Fixes xfstest generic/250 on gfs2.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/direct-io.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
> index e17d919..85485c1 100644
> --- a/fs/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/direct-io.c
> @@ -760,6 +760,8 @@ out:
> if (sdio->boundary) {
> ret = dio_send_cur_page(dio, sdio, map_bh);
> dio_bio_submit(dio, sdio);
> + if (sdio->bio)
> + dio_bio_submit(dio, sdio);
> page_cache_release(sdio->cur_page);
> sdio->cur_page = NULL;
> }
this is incorrect; please compare with the upstream commit.
Thanks,
Andreas