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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:32:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110318083202.GC8571@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110314085819.GJ2005@htj.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:59:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > "disk" is always NULL when we goto out.  There was a check for this
> > before, but it was removed in 69e02c59a7d9 "block: Don't check events
> > while open is in progress".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> 
> Sorry about the trouble.  I hate that function.  :-(

I thought Jens was cc'd.  I'll forward the patch to him & LKML.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:32:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110318083202.GC8571@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110314085819.GJ2005@htj.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:59:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > "disk" is always NULL when we goto out.  There was a check for this
> > before, but it was removed in 69e02c59a7d9 "block: Don't check events
> > while open is in progress".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> 
> Sorry about the trouble.  I hate that function.  :-(

I thought Jens was cc'd.  I'll forward the patch to him & LKML.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-18  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-13 20:59 [patch] block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get() Dan Carpenter
2011-03-13 20:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-03-14  8:58 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-14  8:58   ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-18  8:32   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-03-18  8:32     ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-18  8:37 [PATCH] " Tejun Heo
2011-03-18 22:26 ` Justin TerAvest
2011-03-19 12:54 ` Jens Axboe

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