Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752550Ab3FFP0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:26:14 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49837 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760Ab3FFP0N (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:26:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:26:12 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Nick Dyer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix null pointer dereference caused by sysfs_notify on binary attribute Message-ID: <20130606152612.GA7495@kroah.com> References: <1370511920-8628-1-git-send-email-nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1370511920-8628-1-git-send-email-nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:45:20AM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > It would be nice to have this work as expected but for now this is a minimal > fix to prevent the kernel panic. Is anyone calling sysfs_notify on a binary attribute today? Or can this go into 3.11? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/