RE: [PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

> To: Chao Yu > Cc: ecryp...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write > metadata in xattr > > Hello and thanks for the patch! > > On 2014-07-24 17:25:42, Chao Yu wrote: > > https://bugzill

RE: [PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

Hi Tyler, Sorry for replying late. > -Original Message- > From: Tyler Hicks [mailto:tyhi...@canonical.com] > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:34 AM > To: Chao Yu > Cc: ecryp...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access

Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

Hello and thanks for the patch! On 2014-07-24 17:25:42, Chao Yu wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41692 This actually isn't the bug that this patch fixes. It is a different bug (that I don't think exists anymore) and someone happened to test for the bug on a newer kernel and hi

[PATCH] ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41692 Christopher Head 2014-06-28 05:26:20 UTC described: "I tried to reproduce this on 3.12.21. Instead, when I do "echo hello > foo" in an ecryptfs mount with ecryptfs_xattr specified, I get a kernel crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer de