linux-kernel - [013/107] md/linear: avoid corrupting structure while waiting for rcu

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Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:13:39 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: [013/107] md/linear: avoid corrupting structure while waiting for rcu_free to complete.

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

commit 1b6afa17581027218088a18a9ceda600e0ddba7a upstream.

I don't know what I was thinking putting 'rcu' after a dynamically
sized array!  The array could still be in use when we call rcu_free()
(That is the point) so we mustn't corrupt it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/md/linear.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/linear.h
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.h
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ typedef struct dev_info dev_info_t;
 
 struct linear_private_data
 {
+	struct rcu_head		rcu;
 	sector_t		array_sectors;
 	dev_info_t		disks[0];
-	struct rcu_head		rcu;
 };
 
 


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