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md: raid10: Fix null pointer dereference in fix_read_error()
authorPrasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasanna.panchamukhi@riverbed.com>
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:31:03 +0000 (13:31 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:26:36 +0000 (10:26 -0700)
commit7788f4675013950f6e7f6b817f620722675c7c16
tree30cf3fc358f2fbef4ed89378655e3d1b15cacc36
parent728ce4de24301efd49417c8ead667f2e906bc6b3
md: raid10: Fix null pointer dereference in fix_read_error()

commit 0544a21db02c1d8883158fd6f323364f830a120a upstream.

Such NULL pointer dereference can occur when the driver was fixing the
read errors/bad blocks and the disk was physically removed
causing a system crash. This patch check if the
rcu_dereference() returns valid rdev before accessing it in fix_read_error().

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasanna.panchamukhi@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Becker <rbecker@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/md/raid10.c