From f129ccc9231c95513a1227ca9da876beeb03e577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:33:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] afs: Fix oops in afs_unlink_writeback I'm seeing the following oops when testing afs: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008 ... NIP [c0000000003393b0] .afs_unlink_writeback+0x38/0xc0 LR [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec Call Trace: [c00000000345f600] [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec [c00000000345f690] [c00000000033ae80] .afs_write_begin+0x6a4/0x75c [c00000000345f790] [c00000000012b77c] .generic_file_buffered_write+0x148/0x320 [c00000000345f8d0] [c00000000012e1b8] .__generic_file_aio_write+0x37c/0x3e4 [c00000000345f9d0] [c00000000012e2a8] .generic_file_aio_write+0x88/0xfc [c00000000345fa90] [c0000000003390a8] .afs_file_write+0x10c/0x178 [c00000000345fb40] [c000000000188788] .do_sync_write+0xc4/0x128 [c00000000345fcc0] [c000000000189658] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1d8 [c00000000345fd70] [c000000000189884] .SyS_write+0x68/0xb0 [c00000000345fe30] [c000000000008564] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 afs_write_begin hits an error and calls afs_unlink_writeback. In there we do list_del_init on an uninitialised list. The patch below initialises ->link when creating the afs_writeback struct. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/afs/write.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/afs/write.c b/fs/afs/write.c index 15690bb1d3b5..789b3afb3423 100644 --- a/fs/afs/write.c +++ b/fs/afs/write.c @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int afs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, candidate->first = candidate->last = index; candidate->offset_first = from; candidate->to_last = to; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&candidate->link); candidate->usage = 1; candidate->state = AFS_WBACK_PENDING; init_waitqueue_head(&candidate->waitq);