Bug 594634 - kernel: security: testing the wrong variable in create_by_name() [rhel-5.5.z]
Summary: kernel: security: testing the wrong variable in create_by_name() [rhel-5.5.z]
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-21 08:20 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2013-01-11 03:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-05-21 08:31:01 UTC
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-05-21 08:20:10 UTC 
Description of problem:
There is a typo here.  We should be testing "*dentry" instead of "dentry".  If
"*dentry" is an ERR_PTR, it gets dereferenced in either mkdir() or create()
which would cause an OOPs.

This bug has been in the kernel since 2.6.14-rc2 via b67dbf9d.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/b338cc8207eae46640a8d534738fda7b5e48511d
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