Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 May 2019 20:43:06 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue. |
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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?
-- Thanks, Sasha
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