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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX -rc5] Smack: Do not dereference NULL ipc object
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:48:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080319224814.GC19346@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080314231034.GA1701@ubuntu>

* Ahmed S. Darwish (darwish.07@gmail.com) wrote:
> In the SYSV ipc msgctl(),semctl(),shmctl() family, if the user passed
> *_INFO as the desired operation, no specific object is meant to be 
> controlled and only system-wide information is returned. This leads
> to a NULL IPC object in the LSM hooks if the _INFO flag is given.
> 
> Avoid dereferencing this NULL pointer in Smack ipc *ctl() methods.

Casey, this looks quite legit to me.  Can you ack please.

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14 23:10 [PATCH BUGFIX -rc5] Smack: Do not dereference NULL ipc object Ahmed S. Darwish
2008-03-19 22:48 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2008-03-19 23:27 ` Casey Schaufler

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