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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Luca Barbieri <lb@lb.ods.org>
Cc: Linux-Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use-after-free when trying to load an invalid module
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:00:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615020024.988022C089@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Jun 2003 14:08:32 +0200." <1055592512.3810.12.camel@home.lb.ods.org>

In message <1055592512.3810.12.camel@home.lb.ods.org> you write:
> mod->module_core contains the mod structure, so it must be freed after
> mod->percpu.
> However, initialization happens in the opposite order because mod is
> moved after that, so we need to initialize module_core to 0 and check it
> later.

Thanks for the fix!  This was fixed another way, though, in Linus'
tree.

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-15  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-14 12:08 Luca Barbieri
2003-06-15  1:00 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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