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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_segment.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_segment.c b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_segment.c
index 9d92e2b067ed..c698ebbc626d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_segment.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_segment.c
@@ -243,8 +243,16 @@ struct pcache_cache_segment *get_cache_segment(struct pcache_cache *cache)
spin_lock(&cache->seg_map_lock);
again:
- seg_id = find_next_zero_bit(cache->seg_map, cache->n_segs, cache->last_cache_seg);
- if (seg_id == cache->n_segs) {
+ /*
+ * Only allocate initialized segments. cache_segs_init() initializes
+ * cache_info.n_segs of the cache->n_segs device segments; a forged
+ * smaller cache_info.n_segs leaves the rest as zeroed structs whose data
+ * pointer is NULL. Bounding the search to cache_info.n_segs keeps such a
+ * segment from reaching cache_kset_close(), which writes through it.
+ */
+ seg_id = find_next_zero_bit(cache->seg_map, cache->cache_info.n_segs,
+ cache->last_cache_seg);
+ if (seg_id == cache->cache_info.n_segs) {
/* reset the hint of ->last_cache_seg and retry */
if (cache->last_cache_seg) {
cache->last_cache_seg = 0;