Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/block/xen-blkback: preq.dev is used withoutinitialized

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Mar 01 2013 - 08:43:45 EST


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:34:23AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> if call xen_vbd_translate failed, the preq.dev will be not initialized.
> so use blkif->vbd.pdevice instead (still better to print relative info).
>
> additional information:
> before commit 01c681d4c70d64cb72142a2823f27c4146a02e63, the value printed
> here was bogus, as it was the guest provided value from req->u.rw.handle
> rather than the actual device.

applied with some changes to the description.

>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> index de1f319..6d1cc3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> @@ -904,7 +904,8 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
> pr_debug(DRV_PFX "access denied: %s of [%llu,%llu] on dev=%04x\n",
> operation == READ ? "read" : "write",
> preq.sector_number,
> - preq.sector_number + preq.nr_sects, preq.dev);
> + preq.sector_number + preq.nr_sects,
> + blkif->vbd.pdevice);
> goto fail_response;
> }
>
> --
> 1.7.7.6
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