From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPSEC] Avoid null pointer dereference in xfrm4_rcv_encap
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 03:10:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060405171022.GA14590@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144249178.10340.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:59:38AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> I'm getting a panic that I've traced back to this changeset:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e695633e21ffb6a443a8c2f8b3f095c7f1a48eb0
>
> xfrm4_rcv_encap dereferences x->encap without testing it for null.
The fix for this bug has just been merged. Thanks,
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 14:59 [PATCH] [IPSEC] Avoid null pointer dereference in xfrm4_rcv_encap Dave Kleikamp
2006-04-05 15:41 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-04-05 17:10 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
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