Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:08:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Charming...  So we get d_path() either returning junk or we get 
> > something that isn't NUL-terminated.  Which one it is?  I.e. what does 
> > p look like and what's in s?
> 
> could be use-after-free as well, as CONFIG_PAGEALLOC was enabled.

Umm...  d_path() had just written there, so use-after-free is not too
likely to trigger page fault on read immediately afterwards - you'd
need a pretty tight race to hit it.
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