Re: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Preventive patch in the proc file-system to handle NULL check.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 08:51:42AM +0530, Srikanth Korangala Hari wrote: > > Thanks for the patch! Do you have a reproducer or is this theoretical? > > This will affect if it should go to stable or not. > > Dear Luis, this is theoretical as I observed in most of the call's to api - > "proc_mkdir"

RE: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Preventive patch in the proc file-system to handle NULL check.

> It is fine to crash because /proc is not modular. Dear Alexey, this was theoretical solution. If you feel this should crash instead if the call fail's then ignore the patch. Regards, Srikanth  

RE: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Preventive patch in the proc file-system to handle NULL check.

> Thanks for the patch! Do you have a reproducer or is this theoretical? > This will affect if it should go to stable or not. Dear Luis, this is theoretical as I observed in most of the call's to api - "proc_mkdir" the NULL check is being done. Hence I thought of adding one here. Regards, Srikan