bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

Added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being
attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into
writeback_running. This change  adds the same check before trying to
wake up the thread for that case.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
index 0a9dab187b79c7ef0a4429c4616a6985d320b964..073a042aed243b2660f6b70a380d0647c709aa65 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static inline bool should_writeback(struct cached_dev *dc, struct bio *bio,
 
 static inline void bch_writeback_queue(struct cached_dev *dc)
 {
-       wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
+       if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread))
+               wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
 }
 
 static inline void bch_writeback_add(struct cached_dev *dc)