linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix potential OOPs in blkdev

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Message-ID: <4538DD82.3010408@openvz.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:30:26 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix potential OOPs in blkdev_open()

blkdev_open() calls bc_acquire() to get a struct block_device.
Since bc_acquire() may return NULL when system is out of memory
an appropriate check is required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>

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