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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:31:31 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <20040715223131.GA35816@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040715151650.03fae510@popserver.sfu.ca>
References:  <200407151424.i6FEOdoq060881@fledge.watson.org> <20040715220447.GA32888@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.1.0.6.1.20040715151650.03fae510@popserver.sfu.ca>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 15:04 15/07/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >* linprocfs 
> >[...]
> >       if (pvd->pvd_pid != NO_PID) {
> >                if ((proc = pfind(pvd->pvd_pid)) == NULL)
> >                        PFS_RETURN (ENOENT);
> >-->             vap->va_uid = proc->p_ucred->cr_ruid;
> >
> >rwatson has a patch that works around this particular null pointer
> >deref, but the underlying cause is not addressed.
> 
> This looks like the "embryonic processes are added to allproc and
> p_hash too soon" bug (cf. kern/68364).  Last I heard, tjr was going
> to fix this in the next few days.

Good :)

Kris

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