Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

[Jens Axboe]

On 2014-06-26 10:08, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > v1->v2: incorporate Jeff's feedback in bsg_map_hdr() and Reviewed-by
> >          tags.
> >
> > Joe Lawrence (2):
> >    block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request
> >    block,scsi: convert and handle ERR_PTR from blk_get_request
>
> Jens,
>
> Can you pick this series up?  It actually fixes a NULL pointer
> dereference that can happen if (for example) a usb optical drive is
> removed while an application is using it.

Yeah I'll pick it up, opening up the 3.17 branches soon.

--
Jens Axboe

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