Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937095AbXHHBYp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936295AbXHHBWk (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:22:40 -0400 Received: from namei.org ([69.55.235.186]:47582 "EHLO us.intercode.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936572AbXHHBWi (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:22:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:22:15 -0700 (PDT) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@us.intercode.com.au To: Al Viro cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix oops in __audit_signal_info() In-Reply-To: <20070807230146.GZ21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20070807230146.GZ21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 21 On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Al Viro wrote: > Check for audit_signals is misplaced and check for > audit_dummy_context() is missing; as the result, if we send > signal to auditd from task with NULL ->audit_context while > we have audit_signals != 0 we end up with an oops. > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro Acked-by: James Morris -- James Morris - 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/