From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org, bart.vanassche@gmail.com,
hch@infradead.org, nab@linux-iscsi.org,
giridhar.malavali@cavium.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] qla2xxx: Fix crash due to null pointer access.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 06:12:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161220141251.GF16487@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482208424-12358-7-git-send-email-himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 08:33:40PM -0800, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
> From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com>
>
> This patch fixes crash due to NULL pointer access.
>
> Following stack trace will be seen.
I don't see why you'd need to NULL out the various pointers if the
driver properly unwinds. Given that this patch changes the unwinding
I'll assume it fixes any remaining issues there, and you don't need to
add the zeroing of the pointers after freeing the resources they point
to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-20 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-20 4:33 [PATCH 00/10] qla2xxx: Bug fixes for driver Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 01/10] qla2xxx: Fix wrong IOCB type assumption Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 02/10] qla2xxx: Include ATIO queue in firmware dump when in target mode Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 03/10] qla2xxx: Set tcm_qla2xxx version to automatically track qla2xxx version Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 04/10] qla2xxx: Reset reserved field in firmware options to 0 Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 05/10] qla2xxx: Collect additional information to debug fw dump Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 06/10] qla2xxx: Fix crash due to null pointer access Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 07/10] qla2xxx: Terminate exchange if corrputed Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 08/10] qla2xxx: Reduce exess wait during chip reset Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 09/10] qla2xxx: Fix invalid handle erroneous message Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-20 4:33 ` [PATCH 10/10] qla2xxx: Disable Out-of-order processing by default in Firmware Himanshu Madhani
2016-12-20 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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