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CVE-2012-1097 kernel: regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets
From: Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:10:19 +0800
Description: The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods. Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods. Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with null .get or .set methods explicitly. Credit: H. Peter Anvin Upstream commits: http://git.kernel.org/linus/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e http://git.kernel.org/linus/5189fa19a4b2b4c3bec37c3a019d446148827717 Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2012-1097
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