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Pavel Emelyanov f1dad166e8 Avoid potential NULL dereference in unregister_sysctl_table 
register_sysctl_table() can return NULL sometimes, e.g.  when kmalloc()
returns NULL or when sysctl check fails.

I've also noticed, that many (most?) code in the kernel doesn't check for
the return value from register_sysctl_table() and later simply calls the
unregister_sysctl_table() with potentially NULL argument.

This is unlikely on a common kernel configuration, but in case we're
dealing with modules and/or fault-injection support, there's a slight
possibility of an OOPS.

Changing all the users to check for return code from the registering does
not look like a good solution - there are too many code doing this and
failure in sysctl tables registration is not a good reason to abort module
loading (in most of the cases).

So I think, that we can just have this check in unregister_sysctl_table
just to avoid accidental OOPS-es (actually, the unregister_sysctl_table()
did exactly this, before the start_unregistering() appeared).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
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irq __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set 2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
power hibernate: fix lockdep report 2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
time softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZ 2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
.gitignore
acct.c sched: fix kernel/acct.c comment 2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
audit_tree.c [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
audit.c [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees 2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
auditsc.c auditsc: fix kernel-doc param warnings 2007-10-22 19:40:02 -07:00
capability.c Uninline find_pid etc set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
cgroup_debug.c Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
cgroup.c Improve cgroup printks 2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
compat.c Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt 2007-10-18 15:12:41 -07:00
configs.c
cpu.c CPU HOTPLUG: avoid hotadd when proper possible_map isn't specified 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
cpuset.c hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
delayacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
dma.c whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocator 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
exec_domain.c whitespace fixes: execution domains 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
exit.c wait_task_stopped(): pass correct exit_code to wait_noreap_copyout() 2007-11-29 09:24:55 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID) 2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
futex_compat.c [FUTEX] Fix address computation in compat code. 2007-11-09 16:13:08 -08:00
futex.c kernel/futex.c: make 3 functions static 2007-11-05 21:53:46 +11:00
hrtimer.c Quieten hrtimer printk: "Switched to high resolution mode .." 2007-10-29 09:39:38 +01:00
itimer.c whitespace fixes: interval timers 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
kallsyms.c FRV: fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms 2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.instrumentation uml: add !UML dependencies 2007-12-03 08:13:17 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig 2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
kexec.c Extended crashkernel command line 2007-10-19 11:53:49 -07:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist 2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
ksysfs.c add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
kthread.c
latency.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output 2007-10-11 22:11:11 +02:00
lockdep.c lockdep: fix a typo in the __lock_acquire comment 2007-10-28 20:47:01 +01:00
Makefile revert "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem" 2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
marker.c Linux Kernel Markers: fix marker mutex not taken upon module load 2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
module.c module: fix and elaborate comments 2007-11-19 11:20:43 +11:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c lockdep: fixup mutex annotations 2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c Add kernel/notifier.c 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
nsproxy.c pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace 2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
panic.c trivial comment wording/typo fix regarding taint flags 2007-10-20 00:30:06 +02:00
params.c fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check 2007-11-14 18:45:42 -08:00
pid.c pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
posix-timers.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
printk.c serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option 2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
profile.c sched: document profile=sleep requiring CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
ptrace.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
rcupdate.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
rcutorture.c Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy 2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
relay.c whitespace fixes: relayfs 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
resource.c Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM 2007-11-14 18:45:39 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_debug.c sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c 2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: default to more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tasks 2007-12-04 17:04:39 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: isolate SMP balancing code a bit more 2007-10-24 18:23:51 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: cpu accounting controller (V2) 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +01:00
sched_stats.h sched: clean up kernel/sched_stat.h 2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
sched.c sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval() 2007-12-04 17:04:39 +01:00
seccomp.c
signal.c sigwait eats blocked default-ignore signals 2007-11-12 16:05:23 -08:00
softirq.c [KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff 2007-10-10 16:49:18 -07:00
softlockup.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c [COMPAT]: Fix build on COMPAT platforms when CONFIG_NET is disabled. 2007-10-30 21:29:56 -07:00
sys.c x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter 2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
sysctl_check.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6 2007-11-26 20:09:07 -08:00
sysctl.c Avoid potential NULL dereference in unregister_sysctl_table 2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
taskstats.c kernel/taskstats.c: fix bogus nlmsg_free() 2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
time.c whitespace fixes: time syscalls 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
timer.c sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc 2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
tsacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
uid16.c
user_namespace.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user.c sched: don't forget to unlock uids_mutex on error paths 2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
utsname.c Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) 2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
wait.c
workqueue.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00