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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abort

* Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> wrote:

> Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory. When
> journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls ext4_abort() after
> freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort() accesses it.
> This patch fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>

could you please put the word "kmemcheck" into the commit log? ("found
via kmemcheck" or so) We want to have an easily git-greppable track
record of upstream kernel bugs that were found via kmemcheck. (and
there's already a long list)

Ingo


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