From d60cb61235d4df7eef0bb048664f0bbcc615dc71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 14:03:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dm cache: fix NULL pointer when switching from cleaner policy commit 2bffa1503c5c06192eb1459180fac4416575a966 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 }; -- 2.20.1