4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b512719f771a82180211c9a315b8a7f628832b3d upstream. While forking, if delayacct init fails due to memory shortage, it continues expecting all delayacct users to check task->delays pointer against NULL before dereferencing it, which all of them used to do. Commit c96f5471ce7d ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct task"), while updating delayacct_blkio_end() to take the target task instead of always using %current, made the function test NULL on %current->delays and then continue to operated on @p->delays. If %current succeeded init while @p didn't, it leads to the following crash. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004 IP: __delayacct_blkio_end+0xc/0x40 PGD 8000001fd07e1067 P4D 8000001fd07e1067 PUD 1fcffbb067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 25774 Comm: QIOThread0 Not tainted 4.16.0-9_fbk1_rc2_1180_g6b593215b4d7 #9 RIP: 0010:__delayacct_blkio_end+0xc/0x40 Call Trace: try_to_wake_up+0x2c0/0x600 autoremove_wake_function+0xe/0x30 __wake_up_common+0x74/0x120 wake_up_page_bit+0x9c/0xe0 mpage_end_io+0x27/0x70 blk_update_request+0x78/0x2c0 scsi_end_request+0x2c/0x1e0 scsi_io_completion+0x20b/0x5f0 blk_mq_complete_request+0xa2/0x100 ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x79/0x400 ata_qc_complete_multiple+0x86/0xd0 ahci_handle_port_interrupt+0xc9/0x5c0 ahci_handle_port_intr+0x54/0xb0 ahci_single_level_irq_intr+0x3b/0x60 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x43/0x190 handle_irq_event_percpu+0x20/0x50 handle_irq_event+0x2a/0x50 handle_edge_irq+0x80/0x1c0 handle_irq+0xaf/0x120 do_IRQ+0x41/0xc0 common_interrupt+0xf/0xf Fix it by updating delayacct_blkio_end() check @p->delays instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724175542.GP1934745@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: c96f5471ce7d ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct task") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dave Jones <dsj@xxxxxx> Debugged-by: Dave Jones <dsj@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Snyder <joshs@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/delayacct.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/delayacct.h +++ b/include/linux/delayacct.h @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static inline void delayacct_blkio_start static inline void delayacct_blkio_end(struct task_struct *p) { - if (current->delays) + if (p->delays) __delayacct_blkio_end(p); delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_BLKIO); }