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authorMoger, Babu <Babu.Moger@netapp.com>2011-10-26 14:29:38 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2012-01-12 11:40:12 -0800
commitf09bb6a7bfda3642bcf94aa5da37bb2ea05bd3bd (patch)
tree4bca7c9a29f0924860d35ac17079144d05c04247 /drivers
parentf71989e20764812bb63fb2df49e37bce3b17ed58 (diff)
SCSI: scsi_dh: check queuedata pointer before proceeding further
commit a18a920c70d48a8e4a2b750d8a183b3c1a4be514 upstream. This patch validates sdev pointer in scsi_dh_activate before proceeding further. Without this check we might see the panic as below. I have seen this panic multiple times.. Call trace: #0 [ffff88007d647b50] machine_kexec at ffffffff81020902 #1 [ffff88007d647ba0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810875b0 #2 [ffff88007d647c70] oops_end at ffffffff8139c650 #3 [ffff88007d647c90] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102dd15 #4 [ffff88007d647d50] page_fault at ffffffff8139b8cf [exception RIP: scsi_dh_activate+0x82] RIP: ffffffffa0041922 RSP: ffff88007d647e00 RFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000093c5 RDX: 00000000000093c5 RSI: ffffffffa02e6640 RDI: ffff88007cc88988 RBP: 000000000000000f R8: ffff88007d646000 R9: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff880082293790 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: ffff88007cc88988 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000286 R15: ffff880037b845e0 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0000 #5 [ffff88007d647e38] run_workqueue at ffffffff81060268 #6 [ffff88007d647e78] worker_thread at ffffffff81060386 #7 [ffff88007d647ee8] kthread at ffffffff81064436 #8 [ffff88007d647f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff81003fba Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
index bfec4fa5addf..2d04d619edf0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
@@ -432,7 +432,12 @@ int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *q)
spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
sdev = q->queuedata;
- if (sdev && sdev->scsi_dh_data)
+ if (!sdev) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
+ return SCSI_DH_NOSYS;
+ }
+
+ if (sdev->scsi_dh_data)
scsi_dh = sdev->scsi_dh_data->scsi_dh;
if (!scsi_dh || !get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev))
err = SCSI_DH_NOSYS;