Re: [PATCH] NULL pointer dereference in ecryptfs (ecryptfs_setxattr)

Hi Priya - Thanks for the report and patch. I have some inline comments. On 2014-09-24 06:58:01, Priya Bansal wrote: > This patch fixes the issue which was found in > ecryptfs_setxattr(). Previously, while trying to create a file when ecryptfs > is mounted over ext4 filesystem with encrypted v

[PATCH] NULL pointer dereference in ecryptfs (ecryptfs_setxattr)

This patch fixes the issue which was found in ecryptfs_setxattr(). Previously, while trying to create a file when ecryptfs is mounted over ext4 filesystem with encrypted view enabled, the kernel crashes. the reason being the function fsstack_copy_attr_all was trying to access dentry->d_inode