Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Jun 26 2014 - 12:11:20 EST


On 2014-06-26 10:08, Jeff Moyer wrote:
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

v1->v2: incorporate Jeff's feedback in bsg_map_hdr() and Reviewed-by
tags.

Joe Lawrence (2):
block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request
block,scsi: convert and handle ERR_PTR from blk_get_request

Jens,

Can you pick this series up? It actually fixes a NULL pointer
dereference that can happen if (for example) a usb optical drive is
removed while an application is using it.

Yeah I'll pick it up, opening up the 3.17 branches soon.

--
Jens Axboe

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