Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:45:35 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] __send_signal: pass q->info, not info, to userns_fixup_signal_uid (v2) |
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:06:49 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 01:41 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Eric Biederman pointed out that passing info is a bug and could lead > > to a NULL pointer deref to boot. > > It would be great if you could describe what bug you are fixing in fact > in the commit log. "Something that could lead to a bug" is not helpful > at all. > > A link to the thread where Eric pointed *that* out would be enough.
What Serge is secretly hiding from everyone is that this patch is a fixup against his earlier "user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces v5". So the fix isn't very interesting for people who aren't running that patch.
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