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bcache: Fix a null ptr deref regression
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Commit c0f04d8 ("bcache: Fix flushes in writeback mode") was fixing
a reported data corruption bug, but it seems some last minute
refactoring or rebasing introduced a null pointer deref.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Reported-by: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kent Overstreet authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 11, 2013
1 parent e3e8ded commit 2fe80d3
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions drivers/md/bcache/request.c
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Expand Up @@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ static void request_write(struct cached_dev *dc, struct search *s)
closure_bio_submit(bio, cl, s->d);
} else {
bch_writeback_add(dc);
s->op.cache_bio = bio;

if (bio->bi_rw & REQ_FLUSH) {
/* Also need to send a flush to the backing device */
Expand All @@ -1008,8 +1009,6 @@ static void request_write(struct cached_dev *dc, struct search *s)
flush->bi_private = cl;

closure_bio_submit(flush, cl, s->d);
} else {
s->op.cache_bio = bio;
}
}
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