From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:57:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:57:37 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:37617 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:57:22 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20010623164218.D840@jaquet.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010623164218.D840@jaquet.dk> To: Rasmus Andersen Cc: jffs-dev@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:57:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20304.993308236@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org rasmus@jaquet.dk said: > The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/ > jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back. > Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by > the Stanford team a way back. Fixed in my tree at about the same time the FTL code was, a month or so ago, along with some more important bugs. I haven't yet got round to feeding the updates to Linus - that's next on my list after the MTD stuff which is in 2.4.6. -- dwmw2