Commit 1b6afa17 authored Aug 25, 2011 by NeilBrown

md/linear: avoid corrupting structure while waiting for rcu_free to complete.



I don't know what I was thinking putting 'rcu' after a dynamically
sized array!  The array could still be in use when we call rcu_free()
(That is the point) so we mustn't corrupt it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

parent a5bf4df0

drivers/md/linear.h

+1 −1

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		@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ typedef struct dev_info dev_info_t;

		struct linear_private_data
		{
		struct rcu_head rcu;
		sector_t array_sectors;
		dev_info_t disks[0];
		struct rcu_head rcu;
		};