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Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking

From Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking
Date 2016-04-07 20:30 +0200
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+++ Jiri Kosina [07/04/16 18:06 +0200]:
>From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>
>Commit 425595a7fc20 ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write
>relocations") adds a possibility of dereferncing pointers supplied by the
>consumer of the livepatch API before sanity (NULL) checking them (patch
>and patch->mod).
>
>Spotted by smatch tool.
>
>Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>

Thank you Jiri!

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[PATCH] livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error  checking Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-07 18:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error  checking Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-07 20:10 +0200
  Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-04-07 20:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error  checking Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-07 22:40 +0200

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