Re: bdi: fix use-after-free for dev_name(bdi->dev) v3

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Apr 25 2020 - 03:59:11 EST


Any more comments? Are we ready to merge this now?

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 09:38:42AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the first three patches are my take on the proposal from Yufen Yu
> to fix the use after free of the device name of the bdi device.
>
> The rest is vaguely related cleanups.
>
> Changes since v2:
> - switch vboxsf to a shorter bdi name
>
> Changes since v1:
> - use a static dev_name buffer inside struct backing_dev_info
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