Re: [OPW kernel] [PATCH v9 1/2] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 09:42:32PM +0530, Rashika Kheria wrote:
>> This patch fixes the bug in reset_store caused by accessing NULL pointer.
>>
>> The bdev gets its value from bdget_disk() which could fail when memory
>> pressure is severe and hence can return NULL because allocation of
>> inode in bdget could fail.
>>
>> Hence, this patch introduces a check for bdev to prevent reference to a
>> NULL pointer in the later part of the code. It also removes unnecessary
>> check of bdev for fsync_bdev().
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> I'm still confused, what happened to patch 2/2?
>
> Can you just send me the patches, in an ordered series, of _all_ of the
> outstanding zram patches.  That way I know I got them all, as it is, I'm
> still not sure as it seems that I am missing some, and the v10 patch is
> not in any specific order.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Sorry for the confusion. But, you just have to apply v10 of this
series. The rest of the patches have already been applied.

I will resend the v10 again.

Thanks,
-- 
Rashika Kheria
B.Tech CSE
IIIT Hyderabad
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