[2.4 PATCH] Don't panic on IDE DMA errors

[Marcelo Tosatti]

diff-tree e8f3e8dd41308fb66c026f51bb86b23205ad48c1 (from 0b85d6aa75faefe28d90362424035ef7b349974c)
Author: Chris Ross <lak1646@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Nov 23 15:56:00 2005 +0000

    [PATCH] Don't panic on IDE DMA errors
    
    Kernel 2.4.32 and earlier can panic when trying to read a corrupted
    sector from an IDE disk.
    
    The function ide_dma_timeout_retry can end a request early by calling
    idedisk_error, but then goes on to use the request anyway causing a
    kernel panic due to a null pointer exception. This patch fixes that.

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
index 3f6a0aa..6fc6f77 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -899,11 +899,13 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_dma_timeout_r
 	rq = HWGROUP(drive)->rq;
 	HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL;
 
-	rq->errors = 0;
-	rq->sector = rq->bh->b_rsector;
-	rq->current_nr_sectors = rq->bh->b_size >> 9;
-	rq->hard_cur_sectors = rq->current_nr_sectors;
-	rq->buffer = rq->bh->b_data;
+	if (rq) {
+		rq->errors = 0;
+		rq->sector = rq->bh->b_rsector;
+		rq->current_nr_sectors = rq->bh->b_size >> 9;
+		rq->hard_cur_sectors = rq->current_nr_sectors;
+		rq->buffer = rq->bh->b_data;
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
-
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