From: Milan Broz This patch adds a check that a block device has a request function defined before it is used. Otherwise, misconfiguration can cause an oops. Because we are allowing devices with zero size e.g. an offline multipath device as in commit 2cd54d9bedb79a97f014e86c0da393416b264eb3 ("dm: allow offline devices") there needs to be an additional check to ensure devices are initialised. Some block devices, like a loop device without a backing file, exist but have no request function. Reproducer is trivial: dm-mirror on unbound loop device (no backing file on loop devices) dmsetup create x --table "0 8 mirror core 2 8 sync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0" and mirror resync will immediatelly cause OOps. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) ? generic_make_request+0x2bd/0x590 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xad/0x190 submit_bio+0x53/0xe0 ? bio_add_page+0x3b/0x50 dispatch_io+0x1ca/0x210 [dm_mod] ? read_callback+0x0/0xd0 [dm_mirror] dm_io+0xbb/0x290 [dm_mod] do_mirror+0x1e0/0x748 [dm_mirror] Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-table.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ linux/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ static void close_dev(struct dm_dev_inte static int device_area_is_invalid(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev, sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data) { + struct request_queue *q; struct queue_limits *limits = data; struct block_device *bdev = dev->bdev; sector_t dev_size = @@ -370,6 +371,22 @@ static int device_area_is_invalid(struct limits->logical_block_size >> SECTOR_SHIFT; char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; + /* + * Some devices exist without request functions, + * such as loop devices not yet bound to backing files. + * Forbid the use of such devices. + */ + q = bdev_get_queue(bdev); + if (!q || !q->make_request_fn) { + DMWARN("%s: %s is not yet initialised: " + "start=%llu, len=%llu, dev_size=%llu", + dm_device_name(ti->table->md), bdevname(bdev, b), + (unsigned long long)start, + (unsigned long long)len, + (unsigned long long)dev_size); + return 1; + } + if (!dev_size) return 0;