Re: Tape device request_queue kref accounting bug causes slab corruption

2012-09-14 Thread Joe Lawrence
From: Joe Lawrence Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:27:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] SCSI: st: Take additional queue ref in st_probe The disk_release function expects that add_disk was called and that the latter function took an extra reference to the disk queue. The st driver does not call add_disk, but w

Tape device request_queue kref accounting bug causes slab corruption

2012-09-14 Thread Joe Lawrence
In [PATCH] block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue (523e1d399ce0e23bec562abe2b2f8d297af81161), add_disk() and disk_release() were modified to get/put an additional reference on a disk queue to fix a reference counting discrepency between bdev release and SCSI device removal. The releven