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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops with 2.6.7-bk
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:24:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040624212417.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088111809.4160.1.camel@pegasus>

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:16:49PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> I got this oops on boot with the latest Bitkeeper snapshot of 2.6.7

Memory corruption in generic_readlink(), now that we use nd->depth instead
of current->link_count.  Fix follows:

--- fs/namei.c	Thu Jun 24 16:06:45 2004
+++ fs/namei.c-fix	Thu Jun 24 16:07:24 2004
@@ -2197,7 +2197,9 @@
 int generic_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
 {
 	struct nameidata nd;
-	int res = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &nd);
+	int res;
+	nd.depth = 0;
+	res = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &nd);
 	if (!res) {
 		res = vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, nd_get_link(&nd));
 		if (dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-24 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-24 21:16 Oops with 2.6.7-bk Marcel Holtmann
2004-06-24 21:24 ` viro [this message]
2004-06-24 22:41   ` generic_readlink() - patch WFM David Eger

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