Commit b8b78495 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Jens Axboe

bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn()

Syzbot has reported that it can hit a NULL pointer dereference in
wb_workfn() due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. This indicates that
wb_workfn() was called for an already unregistered bdi which should not
happen as wb_shutdown() called from bdi_unregister() should make sure
all pending writeback works are completed before bdi is unregistered.
Except that wb_workfn() itself can requeue the work with:

	mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0);

and if this happens while wb_shutdown() is waiting in:

	flush_delayed_work(&wb->dwork);

the dwork can get executed after wb_shutdown() has finished and
bdi_unregister() has cleared wb->bdi->dev.

Make wb_workfn() use wakeup_wb() for requeueing the work which takes all
the necessary precautions against racing with bdi unregistration.

CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 839a8e86Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzbot+9873874c735f2892e7e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 8bfc3b4c
...@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work) ...@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
} }
if (!list_empty(&wb->work_list)) if (!list_empty(&wb->work_list))
mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, 0); wb_wakeup(wb);
else if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval) else if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval)
wb_wakeup_delayed(wb); wb_wakeup_delayed(wb);
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