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    eCryptfs: NULL pointer dereference in ecryptfs_send_miscdev() · 57ea34d1
    Tyler Hicks authored
    If data is NULL, msg_ctx->msg is set to NULL and then dereferenced
    afterwards.  ecryptfs_send_raw_message() is the only place that
    ecryptfs_send_miscdev() is called with data being NULL, but the only
    caller of that function (ecryptfs_process_helo()) is never called.  In
    short, there is currently no way to trigger the NULL pointer
    dereference.
    
    This patch removes the two unused functions and modifies
    ecryptfs_send_miscdev() to remove the NULL dereferences.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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