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SubjectRe: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue.
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:55:18AM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
>I think we should cherry-pick 41e3efd07d5a02c80f503e29d755aa1bbb4245de
>https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/856512/ into 4.14. It fixes a
>potential resource leak when shutting down the request queue.
>
>Once this patch is applied, there is a potential for a null pointer dereference.
>That's what the second patch fixes.
>
>The third patch is just an optimization to stop processing earlier.

Is this actually part of a fix? Why do we want this optimization?

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Thanks,
Sasha

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