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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:34:45 +0300
From:	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpi: Avoid using freed pointer in mpi_lshift_limbs()

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, James Morris wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>>
>> > >> >> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
>> > >> >> ---
>> > >> >>  lib/mpi/mpi-bit.c |    5 +++--
>> > >> >>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >>  only compile tested.
>>
>> > That is of course correct.
>> >
>> > James, can you please apply this patch to security fixes?
>> >
>> >  Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
>> >
>> > - Dmitry
>>
>> Has this patch been tested?
>>
> Personally I don't really have a way to test it properly, so the only
> testing I've personally done is to check that it compiles.
>

It works...
In fact there are few other places in the code which take pointer
after re-sizing...

- Dmitry

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