Re: bcache: oops when writing to writeback_percent without a cache device

[Coly Li]

On 2019/6/5 1:24 äå, BjÃrn Forsman wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 17:41, Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/6/4 10:59 äå, Coly Li wrote:
>>> On 2019/6/4 7:00 äå, BjÃrn Forsman wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I get a kernel oops from bcache when writing to
>>>> /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/writeback_percent and there is no attached
>>>> cache device. See the oops itself below my signature.
>>>>
>>>> This is on Linux 4.19.46. I looked in git and see many commits to
>>>> bcache lately, but none seem to address this particular issue.
>>>>
>>>> Background: I'm writing to .../writeback_percent with
>>>> systemd-tmpfiles. I'd rather not replace it with a script that figures
>>>> out whether or not the kernel will oops if writing to the sysfs file
>>>> -- the kernel should not oops in the first place.
>>>
>>> Hi Bjorn,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the reporting. I believe this is a case we missed in
>>> testings. When a bcache device is not attached, it does not make sense
>>> to update the writeback rate in period by the changing of writeback_percent.
>>>
>>> I will post a patch for your testing soon.
>>
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> Could you please to try this patch ? Hope it may help a bit.
> 
> Hi Coly,
> 
> Thanks for the quick patch! I tested it on linux 5.2-rc2 and it indeed
> fixes the problem.
> 
> There is one typo in the patch/commit message: s/writebac/writeback/
> 

Hi Bjorn,

Thanks for the patch review. Do you mind if I add Reviewed-By: tag with
your name and email address ?

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Coly Li