netdev - Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt

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Date:	Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:32:22 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 17:22 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
> 
> We saw a report of a NULL dereference in xprt_autoclose:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611938
> 
> This appears to be the result of an xprt's task_cleanup running after
> the xprt is destroyed.  Nothing in the current code appears to prevent
> that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
> ---

Thanks. Applied to nfs-for-2.6.36...

Trond

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