linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: fix q->flush_rq NULL pointer crash on dm-mpath flush

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Date:	Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:24:09 -0700
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
CC:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...ionio.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix q->flush_rq NULL pointer crash on dm-mpath
 flush

On 2014-03-08 15:09, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08 2014 at  4:33pm -0500,
> Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de> wrote:
>
>> On 03/08/2014 07:13 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm calm.. was just a bit frustrated.  But this isn't a big deal.
>>> I'll make an effort to reach out to relevant people sooner when
>>> similar stuff is reported against recently upstreamed code.  Would be
>>> cool if you did the same.  I can relate to needing to have the distro
>>> vendor hat on (first needing to determine/answer "is this issue
>>> specific to our hacked distro kernel?", etc).
>>>
>> The patch I made wasn't in the context of 'recently upstreamed
>> code', it was due to a backport Jan Kara did for our next distro
>> kernels (3.12-based).
>
> "3.12-based" means nothing given all the backporting for SLES, much like
> "3.10-based" means nothing in the context of RHEL7.
>
> The only way this fix is applicable is in the context of "recently
> upstreamed code", commit 1874198 ("blk-mq: rework flush sequencing
> logic") went upstream for v3.14-rc3.
>
> Jens, please feel free to queue this tested fix for 3.14-rc:

Thanks Mike, queued up. Also queued up the list addition reversal change.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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