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SubjectRe: mm: NULL ptr deref in anon_vma_interval_tree_verify
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> wrote:
> The loop for each entry of vma->anon_vma_chain in validate_mm() is not
> protected by anon_vma lock.
> I think that may be the cause.
>
> Michel, What's your opinion?

Good catch, I think that's it. Somehow it had not occured to me to
verify the checker code - as in, who's checking the checker ? :)

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Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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