4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Stefan Bader <[email protected]> commit 8d16ce540c94c9d366eb36fc91b7154d92d6397b upstream. Added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into writeback_running. This change adds the same check before trying to wake up the thread for that case. Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <[email protected]> Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static inline bool should_writeback(stru static inline void bch_writeback_queue(struct cached_dev *dc) { - wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread); + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread)) + wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread); } static inline void bch_writeback_add(struct cached_dev *dc)
