Re: CVE request: kernel: cifs: cifs_create() NULL pointer dereference

[Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>]

> > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs/5782
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/579445
> >
> > The code that introduced this is upstream commit c3b2a0c6. Any
> > kernel version from v2.6.29-rc6 onwards are affected.
>
> Am I correct in that I do not see a fix for this in the upstream kernel
> repository yet?

Yes. IIRC, the developers don't think this is exploitable. I didn't look 
at this further as it has a lower priority for me and our supported 
kernels are not affected.

Eugene