Re: [PATCH] xsysace: Fix error handling in ace_setup

[Michal Simek]

On 06. 04. 19 21:34, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 4/5/19 4:06 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 4/5/19 4:44 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:49:56AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> If xace hardware reports a bad version number, the error handling code
>>>> in ace_setup() calls put_disk(), followed by queue cleanup. However,
>>>> since
>>>> the disk data structure has the queue pointer set, put_disk() also
>>>> cleans and releases the queue. This results in blk_cleanup_queue()
>>>> accessing an already released data structure, which in turn may result
>>>> in a crash such as the following.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This crash is now quite persistent in mainline. The fix didn't make it.
>>> Should I stop testing virtex-ml507 with qemu ?
>>
>> I've applied the fix now.
>>
>> But given Michal's comments, should we kill the driver for 5.2?
>>
> 
> If the driver is no longer used or maintained, removing it would indeed
> make sense.

I have no problem with it.

Thanks,
Michal

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