In some conditions(such as umount fs failed),origin path or origin bdev or both 
of the two is same
as cow's.If this happens, origin dev will be freed when get cow dev in function 
"dm_get_device" ,
then "s->origin->dev" which used by "dm_exception_store_create" will be a NULL 
pointer.

Signed-off-by:Ding Xiang <dingxi...@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
index 3766386..ccf97d8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1102,6 +1102,7 @@ static void stop_merge(struct dm_snapshot *s)
 static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 {
        struct dm_snapshot *s;
+       struct block_device *origin_bdev, *cow_bdev;
        int i;
        int r = -EINVAL;
        char *origin_path, *cow_path;
@@ -1136,10 +1137,19 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned 
int argc, char **argv)
                goto bad_origin;
        }
 
+       origin_bdev = s->origin->bdev;
        cow_path = argv[0];
        argv++;
        argc--;
 
+       /*check cow dev is available*/
+       cow_bdev = lookup_bdev(cow_path);
+       if(cow_bdev->bd_dev == origin_bdev->bd_dev){
+               ti->error = "Invalid COW device";
+               r = -EINVAL;
+               goto bad_cow;
+       }
+
        r = dm_get_device(ti, cow_path, dm_table_get_mode(ti->table), &s->cow);
        if (r) {
                ti->error = "Cannot get COW device";
-- 
1.7.1

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