From: Jens Axboe Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 04:01:13 +0000 (+0200) Subject: cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment X-Git-Tag: v3.1-rc1~252^2~23 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b50902db5eb8a220160fb89e95aa11967998d12;p=pandora-kernel.git cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold the lock protecting it around it. This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed to see it a lot. Tracked in RH bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his hard work the issue is now fixed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-diff-tree failed