From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:26:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47f5fa8a-136f-a7c3-d713-363983653d2d@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171106175353.20199-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
On 11/06/2017 10:53 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> It is possible that the pointer disk can be null and hence
> we can get a null pointer deference when accessing disk->flags.
> Add a null pointer check to avoid the dereference.
Applied, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-10 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-06 17:53 Colin King
2017-11-10 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-10 15:26 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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