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Re: [PATCH] brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev

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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Gerald Schaefer
<gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> commit 1647b9b9 "brd: add dax_operations support" introduced the allocation
> and freeing of a dax_device, but the allocated dax_device is not stored
> into the brd_device, so brd_del_one() will eventually operate on an
> uninitialized brd->dax_dev.
>
> Fix this by storing the allocated dax_device to brd->dax_dev.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>

Thanks Gerald, I added this to the dax_device conversion for 4.12.

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[PATCH] brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2017-05-03 15:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-05-03 20:50 +0200

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