Re: [PATCH v4] block: Fix use-after-free in blkdev_get()

[Sedat Dilek]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:47 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:18 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looks good,
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Can you dig into the history for a proper fixes tag?
>
> [ CC Dan ]
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> Dan gave the hint for the Fixes: tag in reply to the first patch:
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> > The Fixes tag is a good idea though:
> >
> > Fixes: 89e524c04fa9 ("loop: Fix mount(2) failure due to race with LOOP_SET_FD")
>
> > It broke last July.  Before that, we used to check if __blkdev_get()
> > failed before dereferencing "bdev".
>

Here is the Link.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg54825.html

- Sedat -