linux-kernel - Re: Slab corruption in floppy driver module

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:36:01 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>,
	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: Slab corruption in floppy driver module

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 02:54:55PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> floppy: Fix a crash during rmmmod
> 
> floppy driver does not call add_disk() on all the drives hence we don't take
> gendisk reference on request queue for these drives. Don't call put_disk()
> with disk->queue set, otherwise we try to put the reference we never took.
> 
> Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal<vgoyal@...hat.com>

Ugh... floppy init is ugly.  Thanks for fixing this.

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

Jens, this one and the previous one are regression fixes and need to
be routed through v3.3-fixes.

-- 
tejun
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