Re: blk: NULL ptr deref in blk_dequeue_request()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > > 1. redo_fd_request() races with tear-down of the disks, but because
> > > set_next_request() checks disk->queue before doing anything this was
> > > usually harmless.  Now that do_floppy_init() doesn't clear disk->queue,
> > > the race condition is much easier to hit.  This may fix that problem in
> > > do_floppy_init(), though there appear to be worse bugs in tear-down
> > > order in floppy_module_exit():
> [...]
> > > 2. I made a big mistake in using the existing GENHD_FL_UP flag, as it is
> > > cleared by del_gendisk().  Incremental patch below, but it should be
> > > squashed into the previous patch if that branch is still rebase-able.
> [...]
> > I'm now seeing these instead:
> [...]
> 
> Sorry, I'm not going to spend more time in the quagmire of the floppy
> driver.  Whoever has this commit in their tree, please revert or drop it
> as appropriate.

As far as I can tell, Jens has pulled it from me, but it hasn't made it 
into Linus' tree as of today.

I will do it in my tree and send a new pull request to Jens.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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