From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fix notify_change() potential null dereference.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:57:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416225741.A11576@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040416213743.GS20937@redhat.com>; from davej@redhat.com on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:37:43PM +0100
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:37:43PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> --- linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c~ 2004-04-16 22:36:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c 2004-04-16 22:36:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
> int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
> {
> struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> - mode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
> + mode_t mode;
Passing a NULL argument to notify_change() is invalid.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-16 21:37 fix notify_change() potential null dereference Dave Jones
2004-04-16 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-04-16 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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