From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
jlayton@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, joel.granados@kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de,
len.brown@intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, pengfei.xu@intel.com,
rafael@kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, tanghui20@huawei.com,
zhangqiao22@huawei.com, judy.chenhui@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acct: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when writing to sysfs
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:21:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250210152146.GC1977892@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250210-unordnung-petersilie-90e37411db18@brauner>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> One fix would be to move exit_fs() past exit_task_work(). It looks like
> that this should be doable without much of a problem and it would fix
> the path_init() problem.
>
> There should hopefully be nothing relying on task->fs == NULL in
> exit_task_work().
There's a question of the task_work_add() issued by exit_task_fs(),
though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-10 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-10 14:04 [Syzkaller & bisect] There is general protection fault in path_init in v6.11-rc2 Pengfei Xu
2025-01-27 9:18 ` Zicheng Qu
2025-02-10 13:17 ` [PATCH] acct: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when writing to sysfs Zicheng Qu
2025-02-10 15:12 ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-10 15:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-02-10 16:02 ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-10 18:19 ` Al Viro
2025-02-11 0:23 ` Al Viro
2025-02-11 10:17 ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-11 17:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] acct: don't allow access to internal filesystems Christian Brauner
2025-02-11 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] acct: perform last write from workqueue Christian Brauner
2025-02-11 17:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] acct: block access to kernel internal filesystems Christian Brauner
2025-02-11 20:30 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-02-11 20:54 ` Al Viro
2025-02-12 10:32 ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-11 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/2] acct: don't allow access to " Jeff Layton
2025-02-12 11:16 ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-13 14:56 ` Christian Brauner
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