Re: [Security] Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due tofilp_cachep holding incorrect values

From: Serge Hallyn
Date: Wed May 25 2011 - 10:52:52 EST


Quoting Serge Hallyn (serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> Fooi, it looks like all users of cred_alloc_blank() may need to be
> audited wrt commit 47a150edc2ae734c0f4bf50aa19499e23b9a46f8.

Fortunately there appear to be no other users.

David, is there any other place that a cred gets created and used
without it coming from copy_creds()?

thanks,
-serge
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