From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix a potential NULL dereference in md/raid1
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:36:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060821183621.GB17339@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060821000526.22545@suse.de>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:05:26AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> patch for 2.6.17 stable series.
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
> ### Comments for Changeset
>
> At the point where this 'atomic_add' is, rdev could be NULL,
> as seen by the fact that we test for this in the very next
> statement.
> Further is it is really the wrong place of the add.
> We could add to the count of corrected errors
> once the are sure it was corrected, not before
> trying to correct it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Queued for -stable, thanks.
greg k-h
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2006-08-21 0:05 ` [PATCH] Fix a potential NULL dereference in md/raid1 NeilBrown
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