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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd: Reshuffle init_sd to avoid crash
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:55:41 +0100
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On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 10:36 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> scsi_register_driver will register a prep_fn() function, which
> in turn migh need to use the sd_cdp_pool for DIF.
> Which hasn't been initialised at this point, leading to
> a crash. So reshuffle the init_sd() and exit_sd() paths
> to have the driver registered last.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel D. Diaz <joeldiaz@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Explain what these signoffs mean, since the patch is sent with you as
the author.

Thanks,

James