Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754575AbbDIW3J (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:29:09 -0400 Received: from ares41.inai.de ([46.4.122.207]:33467 "EHLO ares41.inai.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753533AbbDIW3D (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:29:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:29:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_NULL_deref_around_blkmq_in_v4=2E0-rc1=E2=80=93rc7?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 20 On Thursday 2015-04-09 23:12, Linus Torvalds wrote: >That ->sense_buffer thing is supposed to be initialized by the >blk_mq_ops.init_request() function, which is called - if it exists = >when the array of requests ('->rqs[]') is initialized. >[...] >Does this entirely untested patch make any difference? Yes, this seems to solve it for me. >Anyway, I assume that the actual "disk" in question is mpt fusion? I had two setups, one non-virtual AHCI, and one emulated mpt, both of which had failed and are now fixed for what I can tell. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/