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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-10 12:05:52 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-10 12:05:52 -0500
commitaf5feae3d7e821d8c4d38103a7f53146f2590892 (patch)
tree9017bb0661fb617177534f0617c3771d89e31afc /mm
parentce2814f227d3adae8456f7cbd0bd5f922fd284f0 (diff)
parent977b7e3a52a7421ad33a393a38ece59f3d41c2fa (diff)
Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
fix 1 mysterious divide error fix 3 NULL dereference bugs in writeback tracing, on SD card removal w/o umount * tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: fix dereferencing NULL bdi->dev on trace_writeback_queue lib: proportion: lower PROP_MAX_SHIFT to 32 on 64-bit kernel writeback: fix NULL bdi->dev in trace writeback_single_inode backing-dev: fix wakeup timer races with bdi_unregister()
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c23
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 7ba8feae11b8..dd8e2aafb07e 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static void wakeup_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
318 if (bdi->wb.task) { 318 if (bdi->wb.task) {
319 trace_writeback_wake_thread(bdi); 319 trace_writeback_wake_thread(bdi);
320 wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task); 320 wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task);
321 } else { 321 } else if (bdi->dev) {
322 /* 322 /*
323 * When bdi tasks are inactive for long time, they are killed. 323 * When bdi tasks are inactive for long time, they are killed.
324 * In this case we have to wake-up the forker thread which 324 * In this case we have to wake-up the forker thread which
@@ -584,6 +584,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register_dev);
584 */ 584 */
585static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) 585static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
586{ 586{
587 struct task_struct *task;
588
587 if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) 589 if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi))
588 return; 590 return;
589 591
@@ -602,8 +604,13 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
602 * Finally, kill the kernel thread. We don't need to be RCU 604 * Finally, kill the kernel thread. We don't need to be RCU
603 * safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility. 605 * safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility.
604 */ 606 */
605 if (bdi->wb.task) 607 spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
606 kthread_stop(bdi->wb.task); 608 task = bdi->wb.task;
609 bdi->wb.task = NULL;
610 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
611
612 if (task)
613 kthread_stop(task);
607} 614}
608 615
609/* 616/*
@@ -623,7 +630,9 @@ static void bdi_prune_sb(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
623 630
624void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) 631void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
625{ 632{
626 if (bdi->dev) { 633 struct device *dev = bdi->dev;
634
635 if (dev) {
627 bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0); 636 bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
628 trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi); 637 trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi);
629 bdi_prune_sb(bdi); 638 bdi_prune_sb(bdi);
@@ -632,8 +641,12 @@ void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
632 if (!bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi)) 641 if (!bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi))
633 bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi); 642 bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi);
634 bdi_debug_unregister(bdi); 643 bdi_debug_unregister(bdi);
635 device_unregister(bdi->dev); 644
645 spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
636 bdi->dev = NULL; 646 bdi->dev = NULL;
647 spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
648
649 device_unregister(dev);
637 } 650 }
638} 651}
639EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister); 652EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister);