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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: [Drbd-dev] Re: connector: Bugfix for cn_call_callback()
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:59:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070307115914.GA1287@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703071226.13088.philipp.reisner@linbit.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:26:12PM +0100, Philipp Reisner (philipp.reisner@linbit.com) wrote:
> Hi Evgeniy,

Hi Philipp.

> When one stresses the connector code, with sending many messages
> from userspace to kernel, one could get in the "unlikely()"
> part in cn_call_callback().
> 
> There a new __cbq gets allocated, and a NULL pointer got assigned
> to the callback by dereferencing __cbq. This is the bug. The right
> thing is the dereference the original __cbq. Therefore the bugfix
> is to use a new variable for the newly allocated __cbq. 
> 
> This is tested, and it fixes the issue.

Yes, your patch is correct.

> Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

I will push it, thanks a lot.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov


      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-07 11:26 [Drbd-dev] connector: Bugfix for cn_call_callback() Philipp Reisner
2007-03-07 11:59 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]

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