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From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.5.3: NULL pointer dereference in svc_destroy()
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:06:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C9E0DC.8040508@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121205102219.46b22869@corrin.poochiereds.net>

Hello Jeff,

On 12/05/2012 04:22 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Sorry for the late response. I just chased down a similar bug reported
> against Fedora and noticed that you reported the same bug here. In
> fact, there is not a missing svc_get() there since svc_create_pooled
> returns a reference on success. The problem is likely that we're
> calling svc_destroy(nfsd_serv) in the above code, but the pointer is
> not getting NULL'ed out.
>
> The good news is that I believe this is fixed in 3.6 kernels and up...
>
> I have a bit more analysis here if you're interested:
>
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848867#c5


thanks for the heads up! I will take a look later on, probably during 
x-mas time. I'm right now just very busy with our project at work to 
finish a release...


Thanks again,
Bernd


      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-11 13:09 3.5.3: NULL pointer dereference in svc_destroy() Bernd Schubert
2012-12-05 15:22 ` Jeff Layton
2012-12-13 14:06   ` Bernd Schubert [this message]

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