dm table: reject devices without request fns
authorMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Sun, 29 May 2011 12:02:52 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:24:04 +0000 (15:24 -0700)
commita4401a63a8d0594dfbc4d2e7bd2c9779f6b85a45
treeff6ae58eb1b28bd45def580fde7f8b70f19b9da1
parentaf73c7b853bbfd629e1cf02bb6df1c78fd4f1bd1
dm table: reject devices without request fns

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>
drivers/md/dm-table.c