Re: [PATCH] mm: validate inode in mapping_set_error

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Sat Oct 10 2020 - 19:04:11 EST


On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 17:06 -0700, Minchan Kim wrote:
> The swap address_space doesn't have host. Thus, it makes kernel crash once
> swap write meets error. Fix it.
>
> [1] 735e4ae5ba28, vfs: track per-sb writeback errors and report them to syncfs
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/pagemap.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index 17ba0fe59290..9cf540447e73 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ static inline void mapping_set_error(struct address_space *mapping, int error)
> __filemap_set_wb_err(mapping, error);
>
> /* Record it in superblock */
> - errseq_set(&mapping->host->i_sb->s_wb_err, error);
> + if (mapping->host)
> + errseq_set(&mapping->host->i_sb->s_wb_err, error);
>
> /* Record it in flags for now, for legacy callers */
> if (error == -ENOSPC)

Good catch.

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>