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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use after free bug in __blkdev_get
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:55:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE59C5A.1020305@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091026072607.GZ10727@kernel.dk>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Neil Brown wrote:
>>
>> commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735
>> (from 14 months ago) introduced a use-after-free bug which has just
>> recently started manifesting in my md testing.
>> I tried git bisect to find out what caused the bug to start
>> manifesting, and it could have been the recent change to
>> blk_unregister_queue (48c0d4d4c04) but the results were inconclusive.
>>
>> This patch certainly fixes my symptoms and looks correct as the two
>> calls are now in the same order as elsewhere in that function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Oops, thanks for catching it.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26  5:03 [PATCH] use after free bug in __blkdev_get Neil Brown
2009-10-26  7:26 ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-26 12:55   ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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