[PATCH v2] ata: fixes kernel crash while tracing ata_eh_link_autopsy event

Rameshwar Prasad Sahu rsahu at apm.com
Thu Nov 2 04:01:07 PDT 2017


When tracing ata link error event, the kernel crashes when the disk is
removed due to NULL pointer access by trace_ata_eh_link_autopsy API.
This occurs as the dev is NULL when the disk disappeared. This patch
fixes this crash by calling trace_ata_eh_link_autopsy only if "dev"
is not NULL.

v2 changes:
 Removed direct passing "link" pointer instead of "dev" in trace API.

Signed-off-by: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu at apm.com>
---
 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index e4effef..ea20e0e 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -2264,8 +2264,8 @@ static void ata_eh_link_autopsy(struct ata_link *link)
 		if (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_DUBIOUS_XFER)
 			eflags |= ATA_EFLAG_DUBIOUS_XFER;
 		ehc->i.action |= ata_eh_speed_down(dev, eflags, all_err_mask);
+		trace_ata_eh_link_autopsy(dev, ehc->i.action, all_err_mask);
 	}
-	trace_ata_eh_link_autopsy(dev, ehc->i.action, all_err_mask);
 	DPRINTK("EXIT\n");
 }

--
1.7.1




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