Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:52:58 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix use after free in netlink_kernel_create() |
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Akinobu Mita wrote: > This patch invalidates nl_table by setting NULL when netlink > initialization failed. Otherwise netlink_kernel_create() would > access nl_table which has already been freed.
Quite a few users of netlink_kernel_create will panic when creating the socket fails (rtnetlink for example, which is always present), so you might as well call panic here directly.
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