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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq_get_queue: fix possible NULL pointer access
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:16:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071021191618.GU10674@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071020131148.GA3033@tv-sign.ru>

On Sat, Oct 20 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> cfq_get_queue()->cfq_find_alloc_queue() can fail, check the returned value.

Thanks, applied! No normal IO paths use it without __GFP_WAIT, so it's
not a critical fix. But that could change in the future and then cause
allocation failure, so I'll add the patch.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20 13:11 [PATCH] cfq_get_queue: fix possible NULL pointer access Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-21 19:16 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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