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Message-ID: <20061022181102.GC27152@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:11:02 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_readdir
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:08:58AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> What if "next" became NULL afterwards? I know it's unlikely (but so is
> the whole bug, given that we have just one reporter despite the bug's
> age), but is it impossible? IOW does sysfs_readdir have any indirect
> mutex protection?
>
> Dave, do you patch sysfs datatypes in FC's kernel, or types they include?
Not that I recall. <linux/sysfs.h> is untouched in the trees I just
looked at (only have .18 ones handy right now)
Dave
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