Re: [PATCH] arch/x86: fix out-of-bounds in get_wchan()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:33:09PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> I have not checked, but I would expect that it is caller's
> responsibility.

Looks like it: proc, for example, does get_pid_task()->get_task_struct().

> There is generally no way to magically resurrect a
> pointer to a freed object passed in.

Right.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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