Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:25:28 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RESEND] staging: zram: fix invalid memory references during disk write | From | Nitin Gupta <> |
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> wrote: > Fixes a bug introduced by commit c8f2f0db1 ("zram: Fix handling > of incompressible pages") which caused invalid memory references > during disk write. Invalid references could occur in two cases: > - Incoming data expands on compression: In this case, reference was > made to kunmap()'ed bio page. > - Partial (non PAGE_SIZE) write with incompressible data: In this > case, reference was made to a kfree()'ed buffer. > > Fixes bug 50081: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50081 >
Greg: can you please add this to staging? It fixes an important issue and is tested by many users.
Nitin
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