linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: fix __blkdev_get and add

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Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:57:11 +0100
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:59:49PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> I use the script to verify patch fixing oops in sd_revalidate_disk
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132935572512352&w=2
> Without Jun'ichi Nomura patch titled "Fix NULL pointer dereference in
> sd_revalidate_disk" or this one, script easily crash kernel within
> a few seconds.

Jens could you pick up both patches for 3.3 ? Both are actually a -stable
fixes, despite they are not marked so, perhaps we should repost patches
with that mark?

Thanks
Stanislaw
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