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On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:08, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Yeah, I found that offset, too, but: > > > > There is only one usage of s_dentry > > if (next->s_dentry) > > > > But _before_ that there already comes > > if (!next->s_element) > > > > So, if "next" was NULL, it would already oops there. > > What if "next" became NULL afterwards? Hm, yeah. Makes kind of sense. > 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? I think it's protected by the BKL, but I dunno if that's sufficient here. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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