From f1b2cebcf9af845be13bbb8e4ad3df883579cb11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:13:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] CRED: Fix kernel panic upon security_file_alloc() failure. commit 78d2978874e4e10e97dfd4fd79db45bdc0748550 upstream. In get_empty_filp() since 2.6.29, file_free(f) is called with f->f_cred == NULL when security_file_alloc() returned an error. As a result, kernel will panic() due to put_cred(NULL) call within RCU callback. Fix this bug by assigning f->f_cred before calling security_file_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed