Re: [origin tree boot failure] Re: [GIT PULL] core block bits for2.6.37-rc1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Looks like a fairly straight forward case of uninitialized memory and 
> > blk_sync_queue() -> throtl_shutdown_timer() -> cancel_delayed_work_sync().
> > 
> > Will get that fixed up.
> 
> It frees q->td in blk_cleanup_queue(), but doesn't clear q->td. When the final put 
> happens, blk_sync_queue() is called and then ends up doing the 
> cancel_delayed_work_sync() on freed memory.
> 
> Two possible fixes:
> 
> - Clear ->td when the queue is goin dead. May require other ->td == NULL
>   checks in the code, so I opted for:
> 
> - Move the free to when the queue is really going away, post doing the
>   blk_sync_queue() call.
> 
> The below should fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This did the trick, thanks Jens!

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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