From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix schedstats null deref in sched_exec
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:45:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413F997C.6090603@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094658900.14438.6.camel@booger>
Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Oops, I meant to send this one with my original patchset.
>
> In sched_exec, schedstat_inc will dereference a null pointer if no
> domain is found with the SD_BALANCE_EXEC flag set. This was exposed
> during testing of the previous patches where cpus are temporarily
> attached to a dummy domain without SD_BALANCE_EXEC set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
>
Thanks. I'll get everything together and send it to Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 12:50 [PATCH 1/3] sched: trivial changes Nick Piggin
2004-09-08 12:52 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpu: add a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier Nick Piggin
2004-09-08 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: cpu hotplug notifier for updating sched domains Nick Piggin
2004-09-08 15:43 ` Nathan Lynch
2004-09-08 15:55 ` [PATCH] fix schedstats null deref in sched_exec Nathan Lynch
2004-09-08 23:45 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-09 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpu: add a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier Rusty Russell
2004-09-09 10:24 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-09 11:00 ` Nick Piggin
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