Re: [PATCH v2] xen/blkfront: avoid NULL blkfront_info dereference on device removal

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:25:56PM +0200, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 16:02 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > 
> > > This results in a NULL pointer BUG when blkfront_remove and
> > > blkif_free
> > > try to access the failing device's NULL struct blkfront_info.
> > > 
> > > 
> > I guess this is a candidate for backporting?
> > 
> 
> yes, I think so. At least for kernels >=4.5, which could face this
> issue due to commit c31ecf6c12 (this frees the struct blkinfo in the
> failing path of talk_to_blkback).

OK, applied with Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> thanks, 
> 
> - Vasilis
> 
>