From: Christophe Saout We should never access a bio after generic_make_request - there's no guarantee it still exists. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch Acked-by: Christophe Saout Cc: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2007-04-03 17:13:56.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2007-04-03 17:14:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -669,9 +669,12 @@ static void process_write(struct crypt_i generic_make_request(clone); + /* Do not reference clone after this - it + * may be gone already. */ + /* out of memory -> run queues */ if (remaining) - congestion_wait(bio_data_dir(clone), HZ/100); + congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/100); } }