Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:20:19 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <6.1.0.6.1.20040715151650.03fae510@popserver.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20040715220447.GA32888@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200407151424.i6FEOdoq060881@fledge.watson.org> <20040715220447.GA32888@xor.obsecurity.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.

Colin Percival




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.1.0.6.1.20040715151650.03fae510>