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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in inode_permission()
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:25:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109182523.5b50131f@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzCTPYEQCPnLBi1CwmMTocVqCFiCuJ391HkVx1CMw61ug@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:41:03 +0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I think the sane short term fix is to make the kfree() of the i_security
> member be a rcu free, and not clear the member.

You mean my first patch?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/9/349

-- Steve

> 
> Not pretty, but should did this case..
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09 21:27 [PATCH] vfs: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in inode_permission() Steven Rostedt
2014-01-09 21:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2014-01-09 21:50   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-09 22:31     ` Al Viro
     [not found]       ` <CA+55aFzCTPYEQCPnLBi1CwmMTocVqCFiCuJ391HkVx1CMw61ug@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-09 23:10         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-09 23:25         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2014-01-09 23:27           ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-09 23:37             ` Eric Paris
2014-01-09 23:45               ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-09 23:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-10  0:06                 ` Al Viro
2014-01-10  0:09                   ` Al Viro
2014-01-10  0:18                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-10  2:36                     ` James Morris
2014-01-10  9:31                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-10 18:14                     ` Ben Myers
2014-01-11 10:32                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-09 23:45             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-09 23:59               ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-10  0:44                 ` Paul E. McKenney

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