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From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Srikanth K H <srikanth.h@samsung.com>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Preventive patch in the proc file-system to handle NULL check.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 06:17:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180816131731.GB1457@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1534412053-22457-1-git-send-email-srikanth.h@samsung.com>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 03:04:13PM +0530, Srikanth K H wrote:
> If the make directory for "sys" interface fail's then its
> dereferenced without even checking for its validity which
> will lead to crash, hence added preventive code to check
> for NULL and accordingly dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srikanth K H <srikanth.h@samsung.com>

Thanks for the patch! Do you have a reproducer or is this theoretical?
This will affect if it should go to stable or not.

  Luis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-16 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20180816093424epcas2p25ede075fec715ad31108360ddca9cce8@epcas2p2.samsung.com>
2018-08-16  9:34 ` [PATCH 1/1] Preventive patch in the proc file-system to handle NULL check Srikanth K H
2018-08-16 12:32   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-08-16 13:17   ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CGME20180816093424epcas2p25ede075fec715ad31108360ddca9cce8@epcms5p8>
2018-08-17  3:21     ` Srikanth Korangala Hari
2018-08-17  3:36       ` Al Viro
     [not found]   ` <CGME20180816093424epcas2p25ede075fec715ad31108360ddca9cce8@epcms5p1>
2018-08-17  3:27     ` Srikanth Korangala Hari

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