From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: jkc@redhat.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: unisys: verify that a control channel exists
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 13:11:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140404201154.GA12617@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396636704-18542-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:38:24PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> The code didn't verify that a control channel exists before trying to
> use it. It caused NULL ptr derefs which were easy to trigger by an
> unpriviliged user simply by reading the proc file, causing:
Ugh, what a mess...
Thanks for this, I'll queue it up after 3.15-rc1 is out.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-04 20:09 UTC|newest]
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2014-04-04 18:38 [PATCH] Staging: unisys: verify that a control channel exists Sasha Levin
2014-04-04 20:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
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