be32_to_cpu(capbuf.blocklen) >> SECTOR_BITS; } cdrom_read_capacity() ends believing capbuf is valid but in fact it's just uninitialized data. back to cdrom_read_toc(): /* Try to get the total cdrom capacity and sector size. */ stat = cdrom_read_capacity(drive, &toc->capacity, §ors_per_frame, sense); if (stat) toc->capacity = 0x1fffff; set_capacity(info->disk, toc->capacity * sectors_per_frame); /* Save a private copy of te TOC capacity for error handling */ drive->probed_capacity = toc->capacity * sectors_per_frame; blk_queue_hardsect_size(drive->queue, sectors_per_frame << SECTOR_BITS); that will set drive->queue->hardsect_size to be the random value. hardsect_size is used to calculate inode->i_blkbits. later on, on a read path: void create_empty_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long blocksize, unsigned long b_state) { struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *tail; head = alloc_page_buffers(page, blocksize, 1); bh = head; do { bh->b_state |= b_state; tail = bh; bh = bh->b_this_page; } while (bh); tail->b_this_page = head; alloc_page_buffers() will return NULL if blocksize > 4096. blocksize is calculed based on inode->i_blkbits. that will trigger a null dereference on create_empty_buffers(). Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski Cc: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Hİp