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authorJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-06-05 06:01:13 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-06-06 05:56:49 +0200
commitab4bd22d3cce6977dc039664cc2d052e3147d662 (patch)
tree70cd3b540a8efef5d737da68272f67d2265c356a /block/genhd.c
parent23c79d31a3dd2602ee1a5ff31303b2d7a2d3c159 (diff)
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cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold the lock protecting it around it. This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed to see it a lot. Tracked in RH bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his hard work the issue is now fixed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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