Re: blk: NULL ptr deref in blk_dequeue_request()

[Sasha Levin]

On 10/08/2012 05:45 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
>>> > > I'm still seeing this on linux-next.
>> >   I think this is floppy related (see redo_fd_request() in the stack
>> > trace). And there were quite some changes to the area recently. Adding
>> > maintainer to CC.
> Hmm ... I don't immediately see how this is happening.
> 
> Sasha, could you please do git bisect on drivers/block/floppy.c between 
> f6365201d and your git HEAD for starters (assuming that f6365201d works 
> well for you?).
> 

A bisect on floppy.c yielded the following:

b33d002f4b6bae912463e5a66387c498aa69b6fe is the first bad commit
commit b33d002f4b6bae912463e5a66387c498aa69b6fe
Author: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Aug 27 20:56:53 2012 -0300

    genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered



Thanks,
Sasha
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