From: Badari Pulavarty Need to initialize map_bh.b_state to zero. Otherwise, in case of a faulty user-buffer its possible to go into dio_zero_block() and submit a page by mistake - since it checks for buffer_new(). http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118551339032528&w=2 Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Joe Jin Cc: Zach Brown Cc: gurudas pai Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/direct-io.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/direct-io.c~direct-io-fix-error-path-crashes fs/direct-io.c --- a/fs/direct-io.c~direct-io-fix-error-path-crashes +++ a/fs/direct-io.c @@ -974,6 +974,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *i dio->get_block = get_block; dio->end_io = end_io; dio->map_bh.b_private = NULL; + dio->map_bh.b_state = 0; dio->final_block_in_bio = -1; dio->next_block_for_io = -1; _