David Howells <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> > > If __key_link_begin() failed then "edit" would be uninitialized. I've > added a check to fix that. > > This allows a random user to crash the kernel, though it's quite difficult > to achieve. There are three ways it can be done as the user would have to > cause an error to occur in __key_link(): > > ...
I forgot to mention, this fixes CVE-2016-4470. David
