-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Olaf Kirch Do not access the bio after generic_make_request We should never access a bio after generic_make_request - there's no guarantee it still exists. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=98221eb757de03d9aa6262b1eded2be708640ccc drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.21.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ linux-2.6.21.6/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -655,9 +655,12 @@ static void process_write(struct crypt_i generic_make_request(clone); + /* Do not reference clone after this - it + * may be gone already. */ + /* out of memory -> run queues */ if (remaining) - congestion_wait(bio_data_dir(clone), HZ/100); + congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/100); } } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/