The following patch is admittedly a band-aid, and does not solve the
root cause, but it still is a good candidate for hardening as a pointer
check before reference.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@us.xyratex.com> Tested-by: Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>