From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457E9E81.9060307@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612110741010.12500@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs
>> is not mounted.
>
> Have you actually seen this, or is this just from looking at code?
>
> Quite frankly, if "pipe_mnt" is ever NULL, we're dead for lots of other
> reasons.
>
> In fact, pipe_mnt can't be NULL. The way it is initialized is:
>
> pipe_mnt = kern_mount(&pipe_fs_type);
>
> and pipe_mnt doesn't even return NULL - it returns an error pointer, so if
> "kern_mount()" were to have failed, pipe_mnt will be some random invalid
> pointer that could only be tested with IS_ERR(), not by comparing against
> NULL.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116510390600001&r=1&w=2
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 8:27 [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:21 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:33 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:03 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:22 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:47 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-11 10:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:45 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:12 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 2:17 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-12-12 2:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 10:52 ` [PATCH] get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 13:50 ` [PATCH] Optimize calc_load() Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 19:04 ` [PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operations Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 9:13 ` [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:40 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-11 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 12:20 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-11 9:33 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 10:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 10:52 ` Al Viro
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