From 9ba00538ada7ecb4fb8bd71ba734a8eada987817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:23:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] md: ensure bitmap_writeback_daemon handles shutdown
properly.
mddev->bitmap gets clearred before the writeback daemon is stopped. So the
write_back daemon needs to be careful not to dereference the 'bitmap' if it is
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
drivers/md/bitmap.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index 90fe70d76a316..87145faac491a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -1156,6 +1156,9 @@ static void bitmap_writeback_daemon(mddev_t *mddev)
err = -EINTR;
goto out;
}
+ if (bitmap == NULL)
+ /* about to be stopped. */
+ return;
PRINTK("%s: bitmap writeback daemon woke up...\n", bmname(bitmap));
/* wait on bitmap page writebacks */
--
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