This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: Fix NULL pointer exception in find_bio_stripe to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: btrfs-fix-null-pointer-exception-in-find_bio_stripe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 047fdea6341966a0898e3b16c51f54d4f5ba030a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitriy Gorokh <Dmitriy.Gorokh@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:51:38 +0000 Subject: btrfs: Fix NULL pointer exception in find_bio_stripe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Dmitriy Gorokh <Dmitriy.Gorokh@xxxxxxx> commit 047fdea6341966a0898e3b16c51f54d4f5ba030a upstream. On detaching of a disk which is a part of a RAID6 filesystem, the following kernel OOPS may happen: [63122.680461] BTRFS error (device sdo): bdev /dev/sdo errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 1, corrupt 0, gen 0 [63122.719584] BTRFS warning (device sdo): lost page write due to IO error on /dev/sdo [63122.719587] BTRFS error (device sdo): bdev /dev/sdo errs: wr 1, rd 0, flush 1, corrupt 0, gen 0 [63122.803516] BTRFS warning (device sdo): lost page write due to IO error on /dev/sdo [63122.803519] BTRFS error (device sdo): bdev /dev/sdo errs: wr 2, rd 0, flush 1, corrupt 0, gen 0 [63122.863902] BTRFS critical (device sdo): fatal error on device /dev/sdo [63122.935338] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080 [63122.946554] IP: fail_bio_stripe+0x58/0xa0 [btrfs] [63122.958185] PGD 9ecda067 P4D 9ecda067 PUD b2b37067 PMD 0 [63122.971202] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [63123.006760] CPU: 0 PID: 3979 Comm: kworker/u8:9 Tainted: G W 4.14.2-16-scst34x+ #8 [63123.007091] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006 [63123.007402] Workqueue: btrfs-worker btrfs_worker_helper [btrfs] [63123.007595] task: ffff880036ea4040 task.stack: ffffc90006384000 [63123.007796] RIP: 0010:fail_bio_stripe+0x58/0xa0 [btrfs] [63123.007968] RSP: 0018:ffffc90006387ad8 EFLAGS: 00010287 [63123.008140] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88004beaa0b8 RCX: ffff8800b2bd5690 [63123.008359] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88007bb43500 RDI: ffff88004beaa000 [63123.008621] RBP: ffffc90006387ae8 R08: 0000000099100000 R09: ffff8800b2bd5600 [63123.008840] R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000010000 R12: ffff88007bb43500 [63123.009059] R13: 00000000fffffffb R14: ffff880036fc5180 R15: 0000000000000004 [63123.009278] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800b7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [63123.009564] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [63123.009748] CR2: 0000000000000080 CR3: 00000000b0866000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [63123.009969] Call Trace: [63123.010085] raid_write_end_io+0x7e/0x80 [btrfs] [63123.010251] bio_endio+0xa1/0x120 [63123.010378] generic_make_request+0x218/0x270 [63123.010921] submit_bio+0x66/0x130 [63123.011073] finish_rmw+0x3fc/0x5b0 [btrfs] [63123.011245] full_stripe_write+0x96/0xc0 [btrfs] [63123.011428] raid56_parity_write+0x117/0x170 [btrfs] [63123.011604] btrfs_map_bio+0x2ec/0x320 [btrfs] [63123.011759] ? ___cache_free+0x1c5/0x300 [63123.011909] __btrfs_submit_bio_done+0x26/0x50 [btrfs] [63123.012087] run_one_async_done+0x9c/0xc0 [btrfs] [63123.012257] normal_work_helper+0x19e/0x300 [btrfs] [63123.012429] btrfs_worker_helper+0x12/0x20 [btrfs] [63123.012656] process_one_work+0x14d/0x350 [63123.012888] worker_thread+0x4d/0x3a0 [63123.013026] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x15/0x20 [63123.013192] kthread+0x109/0x140 [63123.013315] ? process_scheduled_works+0x40/0x40 [63123.013472] ? kthread_stop+0x110/0x110 [63123.013610] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 [63123.014469] RIP: fail_bio_stripe+0x58/0xa0 [btrfs] RSP: ffffc90006387ad8 [63123.014678] CR2: 0000000000000080 [63123.016590] ---[ end trace a295ea7259c17880 ]— This is reproducible in a cycle, where a series of writes is followed by SCSI device delete command. The test may take up to few minutes. Fixes: 74d46992e0d9 ("block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index") [ no signed-off-by provided ] Author: Dmitriy Gorokh <Dmitriy.Gorokh@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/raid56.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/btrfs/raid56.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/raid56.c @@ -1351,6 +1351,7 @@ static int find_bio_stripe(struct btrfs_ stripe_start = stripe->physical; if (physical >= stripe_start && physical < stripe_start + rbio->stripe_len && + stripe->dev->bdev && bio->bi_disk == stripe->dev->bdev->bd_disk && bio->bi_partno == stripe->dev->bdev->bd_partno) { return i; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Dmitriy.Gorokh@xxxxxxx are queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-null-pointer-exception-in-find_bio_stripe.patch