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init: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info early
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noop_backing_dev_info is used by superblocks of various
pseudofilesystems such as kdevtmpfs. After commit 10e1407
("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock
error") this broke because __mark_inode_dirty() started to access more
fields from noop_backing_dev_info and this led to crashes inside
locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() called from __mark_inode_dirty().
Fix the problem by initializing noop_backing_dev_info before the
filesystems get mounted.

Fixes: 10e1407 ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error")
Reported-and-tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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jankara authored and gregkh committed Jun 22, 2022
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions drivers/base/init.c
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#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>

#include "base.h"

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void __init driver_init(void)
{
/* These are the core pieces */
bdi_init(&noop_backing_dev_info);
devtmpfs_init();
devices_init();
buses_init();
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/backing-dev.h
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extern struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info;

int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);

/**
* writeback_in_progress - determine whether there is writeback in progress
* @wb: bdi_writeback of interest
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11 changes: 2 additions & 9 deletions mm/backing-dev.c
Expand Up @@ -229,20 +229,13 @@ static __init int bdi_class_init(void)
}
postcore_initcall(bdi_class_init);

static int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);

static int __init default_bdi_init(void)
{
int err;

bdi_wq = alloc_workqueue("writeback", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND |
WQ_SYSFS, 0);
if (!bdi_wq)
return -ENOMEM;

err = bdi_init(&noop_backing_dev_info);

return err;
return 0;
}
subsys_initcall(default_bdi_init);

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#endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */

static int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
int ret;

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