Re: [PATCH] block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 04:44:08 EST


On 02/29/2012 03:57 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> 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?

Both are now queued up, and I marked both as stable as well.

--
Jens Axboe

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