[PATCH] swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdevis NULL

From: Suresh Jayaraman
Date: Tue Sep 29 2009 - 08:22:23 EST


While testing Swap over NFS patchset, I noticed an oops that was triggered
during swapon. Investigating further, the NULL pointer deference is due to the
SSD device check/optimization in the swapon code that assumes s_bdev could never
be NULL.

inode->i_sb->s_bdev could be NULL in a few cases. For e.g. one such case is
loopback NFS mount, there could be others as well. Fix this by ensuring s_bdev
is not NULL before we try to deference s_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4de7f02..a1bc6b9 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1974,12 +1974,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
goto bad_swap;
}

- if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
- p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
- p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+ if (p->bdev) {
+ if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
+ p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
+ p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+ }
+ if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
+ p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
}
- if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
- p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;

mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
spin_lock(&swap_lock);
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