On 8/15/07, Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
> may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
It's cleared in seq_open().
> --- linux.orig/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ linux/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int mounts_open(struct inode *ino
>
> if (ns) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_mounts), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct proc_mounts), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (p) {
> file->private_data = &p->m;
> ret = seq_open(file, &mounts_op);
-
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