Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:01:00 +0000 (12:01 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:04:44 +0000 (15:04 +0100)
commit9600be784136611dcab44490998f8d7420ac7a79
tree4a446e5618e2bc6006214564219f1bfab082cddf
parent7c013154e1cb6ffd5f2a0b6b17b4b70df9e16ebd
Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str

commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream.

Trivially triggerable, found by trinity:

  kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546!
  Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670)
  Call Trace:
    show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450
    show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20
    traverse+0xf2/0x230
    seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0
    vfs_read+0xac/0x180
    sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/mempolicy.c