Bug#656911: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: kernel NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: kernel NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.1-1 Severity: normal Hi debian kernel team-- i just upgraded to 3.2 from unstable on this Asus EeePC 900. The machine was only up for about 20 minutes (i was already logged in,

Bug#656911: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: kernel NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf

2012-01-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 15:11 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Subject: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: kernel NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.1-1 Severity: normal Hi debian kernel team-- i just upgraded to 3.2 from unstable on this Asus EeePC 900.

Bug#656911: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: kernel NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Ben-- Thanks for the prompt followup! On 01/22/2012 11:21 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 15:11 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: It looks like we got to the memcpy() in vsnprintf() with str == NULL. Which seems to mean that seq_file is seriously broken. But it hasn't