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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, smcameron@yahoo.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com,
	thenzl@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:02:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0B190E.1030206@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216190200.630.8596.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com>

On 2010-12-16 20:02, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <StephenM.Cameron>
> 
> If you delete a logical drive, and then run BLKRRPART (e.g. via fdisk)
> on a logical drive which is "after" the deleted logical drive in the h->drv[]
> array, then cciss_revalidate panics because it will access the null pointer
> h->drv[x] when x hits the deleted drive.

Thanks Stephen. I put this in for-linus for 2.6.37 and marked it for
stable backport.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-16 19:02 [PATCH] cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic Stephen M. Cameron
2010-12-17  8:02 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2010-12-20 23:42   ` Michal Marek
2010-12-21  7:33     ` Jens Axboe
2010-12-21  7:38       ` Jens Axboe

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