Re: [patch] to dentry_open() for NULL pointer dereference on ENFILE

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 15:16:09 EST

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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Anne Milicia wrote:

> The following patch to 2.3.99-pre3 fixes a kernel NULL pointer
> dereference when the VFS file-max limit is reached. The problem
> occurs when get_empty_filp() fails to return a file struct, and
> dentry_open() does a put_filp(NULL) at label cleanup_dentry.
> Problem exists in pre4-3, but I only tested this version.

My bad, and yes, patch is correct. Thanks.

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