Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 schrieb Lachlan McIlroy:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> >> Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 schrieb Lachlan McIlroy:
> >>> Fix use after free in xfs_log_done().
> >>>
> >>> The ticket allocation code got reworked in 2.6.26 and we now free
> >>> tickets whereas before we used to cache them so the use-after-free
> >>> went undetected.
> >>
> >> Is this intended to go to stable tree?
> >>
> >> How serious is this? I intend to update my laptops to 2.6.26.
> >
> > Nevermind, I just applied the patch.
>
> Okay.
>
> We've only seen this bug once and I'm surprised it happened at all
> so I wouldn't consider it a serious problem.
The fix appears to be trivial, so it might still be a good patch for
stable tree. So far all runs well on my IBM ThinkPads T42 and T23 with
2.6.26.2, tuxonice 3.0rc7a and that patch.
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