From: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@xxxxxxxxx> ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit 26cd4d65deba587f3cf2329b6869ce02bcbe68ec upstream. Following oops were observed when disk error happened: [ 4272.896937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [ 4272.896939] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 4272.896942] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 5a de a7 00 00 08 00 [ 4272.896951] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5955239 [ 4291.574947] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 4291.658305] IP: [] ahci_activity_show+0x1/0x40 [ 4291.730090] PGD 76dbbc067 PUD 6c4fba067 PMD 0 [ 4291.783408] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 4291.822100] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/sw_activity [ 4291.934235] CPU 9 [ 4291.958301] Pid: 27942, comm: hwinfo ...... ata_scsi_find_dev could return NULL, so ata_scsi_activity_{show,store} should check if atadev is NULL. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c index 0dfa46877e39..191b375df95e 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -339,7 +339,8 @@ ata_scsi_activity_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, struct ata_port *ap = ata_shost_to_port(sdev->host); struct ata_device *atadev = ata_scsi_find_dev(ap, sdev); - if (ap->ops->sw_activity_show && (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SW_ACTIVITY)) + if (atadev && ap->ops->sw_activity_show && + (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SW_ACTIVITY)) return ap->ops->sw_activity_show(atadev, buf); return -EINVAL; } @@ -354,7 +355,8 @@ ata_scsi_activity_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, enum sw_activity val; int rc; - if (ap->ops->sw_activity_store && (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SW_ACTIVITY)) { + if (atadev && ap->ops->sw_activity_store && + (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SW_ACTIVITY)) { val = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 0); switch (val) { case OFF: case BLINK_ON: case BLINK_OFF: -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html