Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:10:08 -0400 | From | "Alex Polvi" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sunrpc/auth_gss: NULL pointer deref in gss_pipe_release() |
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On 7/31/06, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:50 -0400, Alex Polvi wrote: > > Proposed (trivial) patch to fix a NULL pointer deref in > > gss_pipe_release(). While this does seem to fix the problem, I'm not > > entirely sure it is the correct place to handle the NULL pointer. > > > > Included below is the script I used to recreate the problem, the oops, > > and the patch. > > Sorry, but that is not the correct fix. The problem here is rather that > something is causing us to call rpc_close_pipes() on the file after the > call to gss_destroy(). That is supposed to be illegal.
Would you be willing to explain what should happen? I.e. what is the lifecycle of an RPC inode?
Thanks,
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