dm table: reject devices without request fns
authorMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Sun, 29 May 2011 12:02:52 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
committerSteve Conklin <sconklin@canonical.com>
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:21:10 +0000 (12:21 -0500)
commit810b0f2a6d2cea84b2040039fbf1f0dc9be07af7
tree552c69b50d402bd1fbd3f0317d27d7b4b5a3bee0
parent5320ccdb22818b4e637456e027a9d2b943bf1920
dm table: reject devices without request fns

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793702

commit f4808ca99a203f20b4475601748e44b25a65bdec upstream.

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 <mbroz@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
drivers/md/dm-table.c