linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or corruption

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111231428440.5261@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:29:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>, markus@...ppelsdorf.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or
 corruption

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Yes, you did. I'm just trying to figure out which ones are going
> straight to Linus and which ones can wait for v3.3.
> 

I think it's 3.2-rc material since it can trigger a NULL pointer by 
reading a file from userspace, it's not limited only to debugging.
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