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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+16c3a70e1e9b29346c43@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: general protection fault in relay_open_buf
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 03:57:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190201035748.GL2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131105152.GB13686@kroah.com>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:51:52AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> Can you test the patch below?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

> @@ -461,7 +463,7 @@ static struct rchan_buf *relay_open_buf(struct rchan *chan, unsigned int cpu)
>  		dentry = chan->cb->create_buf_file(NULL, NULL,
>  						   S_IRUSR, buf,
>  						   &chan->is_global);
> -		if (WARN_ON(dentry))
> +		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dentry))
>  			goto free_buf;

Huh?  That makes no sense; is it IS_ERR on error or is it NULL
on error, or what?  Besides, how did it work before?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30 18:53 general protection fault in relay_open_buf syzbot
2019-01-31  9:54 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-31 10:44   ` Greg KH
2019-01-31 10:51   ` Greg KH
2019-01-31 11:16     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-01-31 11:22       ` Greg KH
2019-01-31 11:28         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-01-31 11:53         ` syzbot
2019-01-31 11:35       ` syzbot
2019-01-31 11:29     ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-01-31 11:54       ` Greg KH
2019-01-31 18:31     ` Kees Cook
2019-01-31 18:46       ` Greg KH
2019-02-01  3:57     ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-02-01  9:07       ` Greg KH

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