Re: [PATCH] [fs/sysv] Fix NULL deref. when allocating new inode

From: Lubomir Rintel
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 04:44:54 EST


On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:17:23 +0200
> Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A call to sysv_write_inode() in sysv_new_inode() to its new interface
> > that replaced wait flag with writeback structure. This was broken by
> > a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d.

> hm. AFACIT this means that 2.6.34's sysvfs will instantaneously oops,
> every time.

Ah yes, really. I thought I checked that and found that only 2.6.35 was
affected which is why did not cc stable@. git tag --contains proves me
wrong though, sorry for that.

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