Commit f129ccc9 authored Feb 25, 2011 by Anton Blanchard Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 25, 2011

afs: Fix oops in afs_unlink_writeback



I'm seeing the following oops when testing afs:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
  ...
  NIP [c0000000003393b0] .afs_unlink_writeback+0x38/0xc0
  LR [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec
  Call Trace:
  [c00000000345f600] [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec
  [c00000000345f690] [c00000000033ae80] .afs_write_begin+0x6a4/0x75c
  [c00000000345f790] [c00000000012b77c] .generic_file_buffered_write+0x148/0x320
  [c00000000345f8d0] [c00000000012e1b8] .__generic_file_aio_write+0x37c/0x3e4
  [c00000000345f9d0] [c00000000012e2a8] .generic_file_aio_write+0x88/0xfc
  [c00000000345fa90] [c0000000003390a8] .afs_file_write+0x10c/0x178
  [c00000000345fb40] [c000000000188788] .do_sync_write+0xc4/0x128
  [c00000000345fcc0] [c000000000189658] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1d8
  [c00000000345fd70] [c000000000189884] .SyS_write+0x68/0xb0
  [c00000000345fe30] [c000000000008564] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

afs_write_begin hits an error and calls afs_unlink_writeback. In there
we do list_del_init on an uninitialised list.

The patch below initialises ->link when creating the afs_writeback struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 4662db44

fs/afs/write.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int afs_write_begin(struct file file, struct address_space mapping,
		candidate->first = candidate->last = index;
		candidate->offset_first = from;
		candidate->to_last = to;
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&candidate->link);
		candidate->usage = 1;
		candidate->state = AFS_WBACK_PENDING;
		init_waitqueue_head(&candidate->waitq);

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