* [merged] ipc-fix-potential-oops-when-src-msg-4k-w-msg_copy.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2013-03-11 20:16 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2013-03-11 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: peter, skinsbursky, stable, mm-commits
The patch titled
Subject: ipc: fix potential oops when src msg > 4k w/ MSG_COPY
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ipc-fix-potential-oops-when-src-msg-4k-w-msg_copy.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Subject: ipc: fix potential oops when src msg > 4k w/ MSG_COPY
If the src msg is > 4k, then dest->next points to the
next allocated segment; resetting it just prior to dereferencing
is bad.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
ipc/msgutil.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN ipc/msgutil.c~ipc-fix-potential-oops-when-src-msg-4k-w-msg_copy ipc/msgutil.c
--- a/ipc/msgutil.c~ipc-fix-potential-oops-when-src-msg-4k-w-msg_copy
+++ a/ipc/msgutil.c
@@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ struct msg_msg *copy_msg(struct msg_msg
if (alen > DATALEN_MSG)
alen = DATALEN_MSG;
- dst->next = NULL;
- dst->security = NULL;
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