linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:43:25 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@....cz>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com>,
	Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in
	ext4_abort


* Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com> wrote:

> Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory.  When
> journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls ext4_abort() after
> freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort() accesses it.
> This patch fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>

could you please put the word "kmemcheck" into the commit log? ("found 
via kmemcheck" or so) We want to have an easily git-greppable track 
record of upstream kernel bugs that were found via kmemcheck. (and 
there's already a long list)

	Ingo
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