linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.0-stable 1/2] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:49:03 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.0-stable 1/2] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

On 2013/6/11 5:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 05:00:33PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> commit 6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d upstream.
>>
>> Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
>> for their fops.  However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
>> the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
>> when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.
> 
> You lost the original authorship of this patch, which is a very bad
> thing to do.
> 

Oops, my bad.

> Ugh, time to edit emails by hand, not my favorite pasttime, someone owes
> me a drink...
> 

Sure, maybe at Plumber. ;)

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