Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:35:04PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> There are a number of places in dax.c that look up the struct block_device
> associated with an inode.  Previously this was done by just using
> inode->i_sb->s_bdev.  This is correct for inodes that exist within the
> filesystems supported by DAX (ext2, ext4 & XFS), but when running DAX
> against raw block devices this value is NULL.  This causes NULL pointer
> dereferences when these block_device pointers are used.

It's also wrong for an XFS file system with a RT device..

> +#define DAX_BDEV(inode) (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) ? I_BDEV(inode) \
> +				: inode->i_sb->s_bdev)

.. but this isn't going to fix it.  You must use a bdev returned by
get_blocks or a similar file system method.