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SubjectRe: 2.6.22-rc6(mm1) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference - git-bisect result
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Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> I tested this further and it turned out that the Linus tree is also
> affected. So I ran git-bisect, after I found out that version
> 2.6.21.6 was not affected by this bug.

Try this patch. The vfs_permission test can be skipped since the VFS
isn't involved. We got the inode etc from a file descriptor.


Signed-Off-By: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index 480f7c8..873edcb 100644
- --- a/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
goto dput_and_out;

- - if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid &&
+ if (f == NULL &&
+ current->fsuid != inode->i_uid &&
(error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_WRITE)) != 0)
goto dput_and_out;
}

- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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