Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Don't access uninitialized data.

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On 02/06/2013 09:40 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:38:36AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On (Mon) 04 Feb 2013 [10:09:05], Rusty Russell wrote:
>>>> Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>> On (Thu) 17 Jan 2013 [13:21:32], sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>> From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't access uninitialized work-queue when removing device.
>>>>>> The work queue is initialized only if the device multi-queue.
>>>>>> So don't call cancel_work unless this is a multi-queue device.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This fixes the following panic:
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>> This fix is intended of v3.8.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should also be CC'ed to stable@
>> ...
>>>> I've already sent it to Linus.  Sjur said: "This fix is intended of
>>>> v3.8.".  If it needs to be in -stable, please tell me and I'll fwd it
>>>> manually.
>>>
>>> This can result in a panic when removing the device or module (when
>>> not using multiport).  I'd vote for submitting to stable.
>>>
>>> 		Amit
>>
>> OK stable, please cherry-pick from Linus' tree:
>>
>> commit b26ada9abe26290b1dcd06075935b977548c50db
>> Author: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 22 09:50:26 2013 +1030
>>
>>     virtio_console: Don't access uninitialized data.
> 
>  $ git show b26ada9abe26290b1dcd06075935b977548c50db
>  fatal: bad object b26ada9abe26290b1dcd06075935b977548c50db
> 
> What am I missing here?

It seems just in rusty's tree but not in linus' tree.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=b26ada9abe26290b1dcd06075935b977548c50db

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> greg k-h
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