From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758373Ab0FVIou (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:44:50 -0400 Received: from norkia.v3.sk ([91.210.183.14]:47007 "EHLO norkia.v3.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753299Ab0FVIot (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:44:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1081 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:44:49 EDT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [fs/sysv] Fix NULL deref. when allocating new inode From: Lubomir Rintel To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Al Viro In-Reply-To: <20100621154046.b5e8319c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1277039843-32548-1-git-send-email-lkundrak@v3.sk> <20100621154046.b5e8319c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:26:36 +0200 Message-ID: <1277195196.27623.155.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.29.91 (2.29.91-1.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:17:23 +0200 > Lubomir Rintel 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. -- Flash is the Web2.0 version of blink and animated gifs. -- Stephen Smoogen