Re: [PATCH] use after free bug in __blkdev_get

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 08:54:57 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Neil Brown wrote:
>>
>> commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735
>> (from 14 months ago) introduced a use-after-free bug which has just
>> recently started manifesting in my md testing.
>> I tried git bisect to find out what caused the bug to start
>> manifesting, and it could have been the recent change to
>> blk_unregister_queue (48c0d4d4c04) but the results were inconclusive.
>>
>> This patch certainly fixes my symptoms and looks correct as the two
>> calls are now in the same order as elsewhere in that function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

Oops, thanks for catching it.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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