From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: istallion: fix arbitrary kernel memory reads/writes
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:26:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA05EA3.5080008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302352882-20802-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com>
On 04/09/2011 02:41 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> stli_brdstats is defined as global variable. After de-BKL-ization in
> the patch b4eda9cb48eac1b7 an access to the variable is not serialized
> anymore. This leads to the TOCTOU in stli_getbrdstats():
Don't use such a weird and uncommon abbreviations.
> --- a/drivers/char/istallion.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/istallion.c
Note that the code moved to staging.
regards,
--
js
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-09 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-09 12:41 [PATCH] char: istallion: fix arbitrary kernel memory reads/writes Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-04-09 13:26 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2011-04-09 20:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-04-09 20:36 ` Jiri Slaby
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2011-04-14 15:56 Vasiliy Kulikov
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