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From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
To: "Robert Święcki" <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org,
	kees@ubuntu.com, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Security] Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:52:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110525145245.GA17600@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110525144400.GA26206@mail.hallyn.com>

Quoting Serge Hallyn (serge.hallyn@canonical.com):
> Fooi, it looks like all users of cred_alloc_blank() may need to be
> audited wrt commit 47a150edc2ae734c0f4bf50aa19499e23b9a46f8.

Fortunately there appear to be no other users.

David, is there any other place that a cred gets created and used
without it coming from copy_creds()?

thanks,
-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 14:48 Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values Robert Święcki
     [not found] ` <BANLkTikey3L4doiHY=__=690TZNsXqRHUQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105231133580.29047@router.home>
2011-05-23 18:28     ` Fwd: " Robert Święcki
2011-05-24 19:52       ` Robert Święcki
2011-05-25  8:28         ` [Security] " Eugene Teo
2011-05-25 13:26           ` Robert Święcki
2011-05-25 14:44             ` Serge Hallyn
2011-05-25 14:52               ` Serge Hallyn [this message]
2011-05-25 15:07               ` Robert Święcki
2011-05-25 15:28                 ` Serge Hallyn

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