Bug 651373
| Summary: | NULL pointer dereference in reading vs. truncating race | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Johannes Weiner <jweiner> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Johannes Weiner <jweiner> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | lwang, tao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.32-83.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 12:39:40 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Johannes Weiner
2010-11-09 12:32:15 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-83.el6 *** Bug 661892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ------- Comment From sbest.com 2010-11-04 08:41 EDT------- Dave, thanks for posting upstream. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg10985.html ------- Comment From sbest.com 2010-11-09 10:54 EDT------- Johannes Weiner at RH just posted this patch to rh kernel mailing list. rh bz is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651373 ------- Comment From haveblue.com 2010-11-10 19:22 EDT------- The patch is in -mm. Unless something major happens, it's headed into Linus's tree pretty quickly. ------- Comment From haveblue.com 2010-11-16 14:46 EDT------- Just hit Linus's tree: http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8d056cb965b8fb7c53c564abf28b1962d1061cd3 Created attachment 487830 [details]
proposed patch
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html |