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| author | Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> | 2007-05-30 02:43:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-30 10:51:38 -0700 |
| commit | 7a74fc4925067c2102175baef73f9b07ab519b71 (patch) | |
| tree | 652b0a4cd513ff7ce126e452b21ec7233f26bc4d /kernel | |
| parent | b927b3e2c9bc39b7eeeaca91e4cd6c3ed59f165a (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7a74fc4925067c2102175baef73f9b07ab519b71.tar.gz lwn-7a74fc4925067c2102175baef73f9b07ab519b71.zip | |
fix possible null ptr deref in kallsyms_lookup
ugh, this function gets called by our unwinder. recursive backtrace for
the win... bisection to find this one was "fun."
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kallsyms.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c index f1bda23140b2..fed54418626c 100644 --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr, pos = get_symbol_pos(addr, symbolsize, offset); /* Grab name */ kallsyms_expand_symbol(get_symbol_offset(pos), namebuf); - *modname = NULL; + if (modname) + *modname = NULL; return namebuf; } |