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Re: [PATCH v2] RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection
Date 2015-09-09 21:40 +0200
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2015 10:53:40 -0400

> There was no verification that an underlying transport exists when creating
> a connection, this would cause dereferencing a NULL ptr.
> 
> It might happen on sockets that weren't properly bound before attempting to
> send a message, which will cause a NULL ptr deref:
 ...
> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

Applied.
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[PATCH v2] RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2015-09-08 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before  creating a connection David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-09 21:40 +0200

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