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H A Dsuper.cf8b11260 Mon Mar 07 17:17:50 CST 2016 Eric Wheeler <git@linux.ewheeler.net> bcache: fix cache_set_flush() NULL pointer dereference on OOM

When bch_cache_set_alloc() fails to kzalloc the cache_set, the
asyncronous closure handling tries to dereference a cache_set that
hadn't yet been allocated inside of cache_set_flush() which is called
by __cache_set_unregister() during cleanup. This appears to happen only
during an OOM condition on bcache_register.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
f8b11260 Mon Mar 07 17:17:50 CST 2016 Eric Wheeler <git@linux.ewheeler.net> bcache: fix cache_set_flush() NULL pointer dereference on OOM

When bch_cache_set_alloc() fails to kzalloc the cache_set, the
asyncronous closure handling tries to dereference a cache_set that
hadn't yet been allocated inside of cache_set_flush() which is called
by __cache_set_unregister() during cleanup. This appears to happen only
during an OOM condition on bcache_register.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org