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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@linux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:54:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111115225408.GA31763@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111115220945.18768.20275.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:09:45PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type whereby updating a
> negative key into a fully instantiated key will cause an oops to occur when the
> code attempts to free the non-existent old payload.
> 
> This results in an oops that looks something like the following:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
> IP: [<ffffffff81085fa1>] __call_rcu+0x11/0x13e
> PGD 3391d067 PUD 3894a067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in:
> 
> Pid: 4354, comm: keyctl Not tainted 3.1.0-fsdevel+ #1140                  /DG965RY

Ah, so this patch should also go into the 3.1-stable tree?  Any older
ones as welL?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-15 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 22:09 David Howells
2011-11-15 22:54 ` Greg KH [this message]

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