Re: NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_readdir

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:08:58AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:

 > What if "next" became NULL afterwards? I know it's unlikely (but so is
 > the whole bug, given that we have just one reporter despite the bug's
 > age), but is it impossible? IOW does sysfs_readdir have any indirect
 > mutex protection?
 > 
 > Dave, do you patch sysfs datatypes in FC's kernel, or types they include?

Not that I recall. <linux/sysfs.h> is untouched in the trees I just
looked at (only have .18 ones handy right now)

	Dave

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