* Grzegorz Nosek ([email protected]) wrote:
> --- linux-2.6/fs/read_write.c~ 2005-10-06 21:35:03.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/read_write.c 2005-10-05 19:14:04.000000000 +0200
> @@ -719,7 +719,7 @@
> current->syscr++;
> current->syscw++;
>
> - if (*ppos > max)
> + if (ppos && *ppos > max)
> retval = -EOVERFLOW;
This doesn't make sense. ppos must not be NULL.
Code looks like this:
if (!ppos)
ppos = &in_file->f_pos;
...
pos = *ppos;
...
if (*ppos > max)
So it can't be NULL, and if somehow it were, the oops would've already
happened.
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