From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@osdl.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix use after free in netlink_kernel_create()
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:52:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DF129A.6060607@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060813101535.GA8703@miraclelinux.com>
Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch invalidates nl_table by setting NULL when netlink
> initialization failed. Otherwise netlink_kernel_create() would
> access nl_table which has already been freed.
Quite a few users of netlink_kernel_create will panic when creating
the socket fails (rtnetlink for example, which is always present),
so you might as well call panic here directly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-13 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-13 10:15 [PATCH] fix use after free in netlink_kernel_create() Akinobu Mita
2006-08-13 11:52 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-08-13 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-13 18:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-08-14 4:02 ` David Miller
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=44DF129A.6060607@trash.net \
--to=kaber@trash.net \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mita@miraclelinux.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.