linux-kernel - [PATCH] swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s

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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:53:29 +0530
From:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev
 is NULL

While testing Swap over NFS patchset, I noticed an oops that was triggered
during swapon. Investigating further, the NULL pointer deference is due to the
SSD device check/optimization in the swapon code that assumes s_bdev could never
be NULL.

inode->i_sb->s_bdev could be NULL in a few cases. For e.g. one such case is
loopback NFS mount, there could be others as well. Fix this by ensuring s_bdev
is not NULL before we try to deference s_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4de7f02..a1bc6b9 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1974,12 +1974,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 		goto bad_swap;
 	}
 
-	if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
-		p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
-		p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+	if (p->bdev) {
+		if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
+			p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
+			p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+		}
+		if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
+			p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
 	}
-	if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
-		p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
 
 	mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
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