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| author | Kris Shannon | 2009-03-02 09:47:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe | 2009-03-05 12:04:57 +0100 |
| commit | a1a15ac5f9aeee521c048a88fc1aec848e623de7 (patch) | |
| tree | 964c1fe343bbc8edc24003df15dd475f1255e7e5 /drivers/block | |
| parent | Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/po... (diff) | |
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Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference in xen-blkfront
When booting Xen Dom0 on a pre-release 3.2.1 hypervisor the system Oopses on a
"Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" in xenwatch.
From the backtrace it looks like backend_changed is calling bdget_disk
with a NULL pointer. Checking for NULL and returning ENODEV instead
allows the kernel to boot.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index b6c8ce254359..8f905089b72b 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -977,6 +977,8 @@ static void backend_changed(struct xenbus_device *dev, break; case XenbusStateClosing: + if (info->gd == NULL) + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, -ENODEV, "gd is NULL"); bd = bdget_disk(info->gd, 0); if (bd == NULL) xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, -ENODEV, "bdget failed"); |