From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent NULL pointer deref in grab_swap_token
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:49:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307224926.GA13147@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307211344.GA2946@sgi.com>
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:13:44PM -0600, Dean Roe wrote:
> grab_swap_token() assumes that the current process has an mm struct,
> which is not true for kernel threads invoking get_user_pages(). Since
> this should be extremely rare, just return from grab_swap_token()
> without doing anything.
There's a few things that will break if a kernel thread calls
get_user_pages, so we should rather fix those.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 21:13 [PATCH] Prevent NULL pointer deref in grab_swap_token Dean Roe
2006-03-07 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 22:49 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-03-07 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 9:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060307224926.GA13147@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=riel@redhat.com \
--cc=roe@sgi.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox