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writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi
authorAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:35:45 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:20:40 +0000 (09:20 +0100)
commit8a74670dd21ad39b3629f70c9ec98d24b036e9d9
tree77096408e254d8e940584a19846fe466d1829809
parent5e570c24c5617c91a58f5db3c929038955427e5c
writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

[ Upstream commit 347a28b586802d09604a149c1a1f6de5dccbe6fa ]

This happened while running in qemu-system-aarch64, the AMBA PL011 UART
driver when enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
arch_initcall(pl011_init) came before subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init),
devtmpfs' handle_remove() crashes because the reference count is a NULL
pointer only because wb->bdi hasn't been initialized yet.

Rework so that wb_put have an extra check if wb->bdi before decrement
wb->refcnt and also add a WARN_ON_ONCE to get a warning if it happens again
in other drivers.

Fixes: 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h