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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com, axboe@fb.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: verify that underlying dev exists before getting its name
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 12:47:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150904164729.GD25329@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441385118-27199-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 12:45:18PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> We can't assume there is always an underlying device and must verify that
> as well. Otherwise, we'd deref a NULL ptr here.

Do you have backtrace of this happening?  There's a bug in cleanup
path which causes oops (patch is being tested) and this may just be a
symptom of the same problem.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-04 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-04 16:45 [PATCH] writeback: verify that underlying dev exists before getting its name Sasha Levin
2015-09-04 16:47 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2015-09-04 17:20   ` Sasha Levin
2015-09-04 17:36     ` Tejun Heo
2015-09-09 18:32       ` Sasha Levin

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