From f383ae300c4b6466824fd5c8cbd0a6c4ed2b53d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:53:51 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bcache: cannot set writeback_running via sysfs if no
 writeback kthread created
Git-commit: f383ae300c4b6466824fd5c8cbd0a6c4ed2b53d3
Patch-mainline: v5.0-rc1
References: bsc#1130972

"echo 1 > writeback_running" marks writeback_running even if no
writeback kthread created as "d_strtoul(writeback_running)" will simply
set dc-> writeback_running without checking the existence of
dc->writeback_thread.

Add check for setting writeback_running via sysfs: if no writeback
kthread available, reject setting to 1.

v2 -> v3:
  * Make message on wrong assignment more clear.
  * Print name of bcache device instead of name of backing device.

Signed-off-by: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

---
 drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
index d2e5c9892d4d..9d5fe12f0c9c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
@@ -384,8 +384,25 @@ STORE(bch_cached_dev)
 	mutex_lock(&bch_register_lock);
 	size = __cached_dev_store(kobj, attr, buf, size);
 
-	if (attr == &sysfs_writeback_running)
-		bch_writeback_queue(dc);
+	if (attr == &sysfs_writeback_running) {
+		/* dc->writeback_running changed in __cached_dev_store() */
+		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread)) {
+			/*
+			 * reject setting it to 1 via sysfs if writeback
+			 * kthread is not created yet.
+			 */
+			if (dc->writeback_running) {
+				dc->writeback_running = false;
+				pr_err("%s: failed to run non-existent writeback thread",
+						dc->disk.disk->disk_name);
+			}
+		} else
+			/*
+			 * writeback kthread will check if dc->writeback_running
+			 * is true or false.
+			 */
+			bch_writeback_queue(dc);
+	}
 
 	if (attr == &sysfs_writeback_percent)
 		if (!test_and_set_bit(BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING, &dc->disk.flags))
-- 
2.16.4