[PATCH] mm: zcache: zcache_cleancache_flush_fs fix

From: Piotr Sarna
Date: Tue Aug 06 2013 - 05:37:00 EST


This patch fixes "mm: zcache: core functions added" patch,
available at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/20/90.
It regards incorrect implementation of zcache_cleancache_flush_fs().

Function above should be effective only if cleancache pool referred
by pool_id is valid. This issue is checked by testing whether zpool
points to NULL.

Unfortunately, if filesystem mount fails, such pool is never created
and fs/super.c calls cleancache_invalidate_fs() function with pool_id
parameter set to -1. This results in assigning zpool with pools[-1],
which causes zpool to be not NULL and thus whole function hangs on
uninitialized read-write lock.

To prevent that behaviour, pool_id should be checked for being positive
before assigning zpool variable with pools[pool_id].

Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/zcache.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/zcache.c b/mm/zcache.c
index a2408e8..7e6d2e7 100644
--- a/mm/zcache.c
+++ b/mm/zcache.c
@@ -600,8 +600,12 @@ static void zcache_cleancache_flush_fs(int pool_id)
struct zcache_rb_entry *entry = NULL;
struct rb_node *node;
unsigned long flags1, flags2;
- struct zcache_pool *zpool = zcache.pools[pool_id];
+ struct zcache_pool *zpool;
+
+ if (pool_id < 0)
+ return;

+ zpool = zcache.pools[pool_id];
if (!zpool)
return;

--
1.7.9.5

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