The patch titled
dm: do not access the bio after generic_make_request
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
dm-do-not-access-the-bio-after-generic_make_request.patch
This patch was dropped because changes in the dm tree broke it
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Subject: dm: do not access the bio after generic_make_request
From: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
We should never access a bio after generic_make_request - there's no guarantee
it still exists.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/md/dm-crypt.c~dm-do-not-access-the-bio-after-generic_make_request drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c~dm-do-not-access-the-bio-after-generic_make_request
+++ a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -669,9 +669,12 @@ static void process_write(struct crypt_i
generic_make_request(clone);
+ /* Do not reference clone after this - it
+ * may be gone already. */
+
/* out of memory -> run queues */
if (remaining)
- congestion_wait(bio_data_dir(clone), HZ/100);
+ congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/100);
}
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
dm-do-not-access-the-bio-after-generic_make_request.patch
dm-get-rid-of-first_clone-in-dm-crypt.patch
dm-allocate-smaller-clones.patch
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