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authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>2015-10-09 14:03:38 +0100
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2015-10-27 22:14:27 -0400
commitd2adffd701eefc29c06cd10494e4bdb2bc70fe3b (patch)
tree6ae1ac3726e44d621586c63997e8482080347d6f
parent5b0d0df8f71b1f8565ba0a66f9c7e431cc3b4cbc (diff)
dm cache: fix NULL pointer when switching from cleaner policy
[ Upstream commit 2bffa1503c5c06192eb1459180fac4416575a966 ] The cleaner policy doesn't make use of the per cache block hint space in the metadata (unlike the other policies). When switching from the cleaner policy to mq or smq a NULL pointer crash (in dm_tm_new_block) was observed. The crash was caused by bugs in dm-cache-metadata.c when trying to skip creation of the hint btree. The minimal fix is to change hint size for the cleaner policy to 4 bytes (only hint size supported). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c
index b04d1f904d07..2eca9084defe 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static struct dm_cache_policy *wb_create(dm_cblock_t cache_size,
static struct dm_cache_policy_type wb_policy_type = {
.name = "cleaner",
.version = {1, 0, 0},
- .hint_size = 0,
+ .hint_size = 4,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.create = wb_create
};