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Subject[PATCH 3.12 025/116] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer
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3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>

commit 46a51c80216cb891f271ad021f59009f34677499 upstream.

This patch fixes the bug in reset_store caused by accessing NULL pointer.

The bdev gets its value from bdget_disk() which could fail when memory
pressure is severe and hence can return NULL because allocation of
inode in bdget could fail.

Hence, this patch introduces a check for bdev to prevent reference to a
NULL pointer in the later part of the code. It also removes unnecessary
check of bdev for fsync_bdev().

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -648,6 +648,9 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device
zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
bdev = bdget_disk(zram->disk, 0);

+ if (!bdev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
/* Do not reset an active device! */
if (bdev->bd_holders)
return -EBUSY;
@@ -660,8 +663,7 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device
return -EINVAL;

/* Make sure all pending I/O is finished */
- if (bdev)
- fsync_bdev(bdev);
+ fsync_bdev(bdev);

zram_reset_device(zram, true);
return len;



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