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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:02:22 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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To: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic.
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On 2010-12-16 20:02, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <StephenM.Cameron>
> 
> If you delete a logical drive, and then run BLKRRPART (e.g. via fdisk)
> on a logical drive which is "after" the deleted logical drive in the h->drv[]
> array, then cciss_revalidate panics because it will access the null pointer
> h->drv[x] when x hits the deleted drive.

Thanks Stephen. I put this in for-linus for 2.6.37 and marked it for
stable backport.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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