The bio_alloc_bioset() call in md_super_write() could fail under memory pressure and return NULL. Add a check to handle this case gracefully by returning early, preventing a potential NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Ye Chey <yechey@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 9daa78c5f..a0e2d90d4 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1002,6 +1002,8 @@ void md_super_write(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev, REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE | REQ_META | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA, GFP_NOIO, &mddev->sync_set); + if (!bio) + return; atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending); -- 2.44.0