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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent vbd frontend from oopsing if the
	underlying device doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:31:52 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 08:55:45AM +0000, Horms wrote:
> Prevent vbd frontend from oopsing if the underlying device doesn't exist.
> 
> connect() in blkfront.c was not checking the return value of xlvbd_add().
> In my case xlvbd_alloc_gendisk() was failing in xlvbd_add(), and the
> subsequent call to kick_pending_request_queues() barfed because info->rq
> was unitinialised.

Thanks, applied.
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Vincent Hanquez