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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	djkurtz@google.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
	zwisler@chromium.org, "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chris Boot" <bootc@bootc.net>,
	"Clément Péron" <peron.clem@gmail.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Ulf Hansson" <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue.
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 20:43:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190514004306.GF11972@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190513175521.84955-1-rrangel@chromium.org>

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:55:18AM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
>I think we should cherry-pick 41e3efd07d5a02c80f503e29d755aa1bbb4245de
>https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/856512/ into 4.14. It fixes a
>potential resource leak when shutting down the request queue.
>
>Once this patch is applied, there is a potential for a null pointer dereference.
>That's what the second patch fixes.
>
>The third patch is just an optimization to stop processing earlier.

Is this actually part of a fix? Why do we want this optimization?

--
Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-14  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-13 17:55 [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 1/3] mmc: block: Simplify cleaning up the queue Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 2/3] mmc: Fix null pointer dereference in mmc_init_request Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 20:12   ` Greg KH
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 3/3] mmc: Kill the request if the queuedata has been removed Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 20:12   ` Greg KH
2019-05-14  0:43 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-05-14  9:19 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-19 16:46   ` Raul Rangel
2019-06-19 17:09     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-19 18:23       ` Raul Rangel
2019-06-19 18:36         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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