Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:29:34 +0100 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent an oops in vmalloc_user() |
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Jonathan Corbet a écrit : > Prevent an oops in vmalloc_user() > > If an attempt to allocate memory with vmalloc_user() fails, the result > will be an oops when it tries to tweak the flags in the (non-existent) > VMA. One could argue that __find_vm_area() should not return a random > pointer on failure, but vmalloc_user() requires a check regardless. >
Yes, I already posted a patch for that, and other problem as well.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/23/86
Maybe it was lost...
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