null_blk: Null pointer deference problem in alloc_page_buffers
If we load the null_blk module with bs=8k we get following oops: [ 3819.812190] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 [ 3819.812387] IP: [<ffffffff81170aa5>] create_empty_buffers+0x28/0xaf [ 3819.812527] PGD 219244067 PUD 215a06067 PMD 0 [ 3819.812640] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 3819.812772] Modules linked in: null_blk(+) Fix that by resetting block size to PAGE_SIZE if it is greater than PAGE_SIZE Reported-by: Sumanth <sumantk2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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