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From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [fs/sysv] Fix NULL deref. when allocating new inode
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277195196.27623.155.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621154046.b5e8319c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:17:23 +0200
> Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> wrote:
> 
> > A call to sysv_write_inode() in sysv_new_inode() to its new interface
> > that replaced wait flag with writeback structure. This was broken by
> > a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d.

> hm.  AFACIT this means that 2.6.34's sysvfs will instantaneously oops,
> every time.

Ah yes, really. I thought I checked that and found that only 2.6.35 was
affected which is why did not cc stable@. git tag --contains proves me
wrong though, sorry for that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-22  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-20 13:17 [PATCH] [fs/sysv] Fix NULL deref. when allocating new inode Lubomir Rintel
2010-06-21 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-22  8:26   ` Lubomir Rintel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-13 19:01 Lubomir Rintel

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