[PATCH 3/5] dm-writecache: fix a crash if we attempt to use non-dax device

[Mikulas Patocka]

If we specify a non-DAX device as a cache device in the 'P' mode,
dm-writecache crashes on NULL pointer dereference inside dax_synchronous.

Note that this is not a security bug because only root can trigger it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
Fixes: a46624580376 ("dm writecache: reject asynchronous pmem devices")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5

---
 drivers/md/dm-writecache.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -2502,6 +2502,11 @@ invalid_optional:
        }
 
        if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc)) {
+               if (!wc->ssd_dev->dax_dev) {
+                       r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+                       ti->error = "Cache device is not a DAX device";
+                       goto bad;
+               }
                if (!dax_synchronous(wc->ssd_dev->dax_dev)) {
                        r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                        ti->error = "Asynchronous persistent memory not 
supported as pmem cache";