linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix cciss

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Message-ID: <4D0B190E.1030206@kernel.dk>
Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:02:22 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, smcameron@...oo.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mike.miller@...com, thenzl@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic.

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

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