This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference in print_daily_error_info()
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-print_daily_error_info.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a1c6c5698d53db4c47a25c3a8d11731a4d7b8370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:30:04 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference in print_daily_error_info()
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
commit a1c6c5698d53db4c47a25c3a8d11731a4d7b8370 upstream.
Fix NULL pointer dereference in print_daily_error_info, when
called on unmounted fs (EXT4_SB(sb) returns NULL), by removing error
reporting timer in ext4_put_super.
Google-Bug-Id: 3017663
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_
ext4_abort(sb, "Couldn't clean up the journal");
}
+ del_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
ext4_release_system_zone(sb);
ext4_mb_release(sb);
ext4_ext_release(sb);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/ext4-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-print_daily_error_info.patch
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