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Christian and Kees both pointed out that this is a bit sloppy to open-code both places, and Christian points out that we leave a dangling pointer to ->notif if file allocation fails. Since we check ->notif for null in order to determine if it's ok to install a filter, this means people won't be able to install a filter if the file allocation fails for some reason, even if they subsequently should be able to. To fix this, let's hoist this free+null into its own little helper and use it. Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902140953.1201956-1-tycho@tycho.pizza Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.