writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi
authorAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:33:31 +0000 (00:33 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:11:46 +0000 (12:11 -0800)
commit368686a95e55fd66b88542b5b23d802a4886b1aa
treeee75130c8e26ce68889b2df895a0f1330e51e626
parent6a90a83f1d1957647581ca48caa1f7cc4fa44f8d
writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

This happened while running in qemu-system-aarch64, the AMBA PL011 UART
driver when enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
arch_initcall(pl011_init) came before subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init),
devtmpfs' handle_remove() crashes because the reference count is a NULL
pointer only because wb->bdi hasn't been initialized yet.

Rework so that wb_put have an extra check if wb->bdi before decrement
wb->refcnt and also add a WARN_ON_ONCE to get a warning if it happens
again in other drivers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030113545.30999-2-anders.roxell@linaro.org
Fixes: 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h