Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey --table \ "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512" Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

References 9

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• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/337b7af273562b73c46ef77a724604ad139ca762
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8258d84a7917aeece773716518deadb7ad776cb7
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83b4e3d878ea6be9aec1d5a1ab177c766c64d1a0
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98dba02d9a93eec11bffbb93c7c51624290702d2
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e3fffe02e05c05357af91364ac0fc1ed425b5b
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• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95cb1526669ccdf7eb12eefd57a893953e3595f

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