From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [md PATCH 05/13] md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:12:46 +1100 Message-ID: <20110111221246.12732.4023.stgit@notabene.brown> References: <20110111221050.12732.31647.stgit@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110111221050.12732.31647.stgit@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Brassow , Mike Snitzer List-Id: linux-raid.ids From: Jonathan Brassow With the module parameter 'start_dirty_degraded' set, raid5_spare_active() previously called sysfs_notify_dirent() with a NULL argument (rdev->sysfs_state) when a rebuild finished. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 316fbe7..9212c07 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -5338,7 +5338,7 @@ static int raid5_spare_active(mddev_t *mddev) && !test_bit(Faulty, &tmp->rdev->flags) && !test_and_set_bit(In_sync, &tmp->rdev->flags)) { count++; - sysfs_notify_dirent(tmp->rdev->sysfs_state); + sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(tmp->rdev->sysfs_state); } } spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);