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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] Null short-circuit for selinux_cred_free()
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Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Let selinux_cred_free accept NULL pointers.
No need to do so.

> If we don't do this, then we can crash if someone manages to pass NULL to
> cred_free. Seems to me it's better to just do nothing in that case rather
> than crash.
If cred == NULL, put_cred_rcu(NULL) causes the kernel to panic before calling
LSM hooks.


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