Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:01:00 +0000 (12:01 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:50 +0000 (10:00 -0700)
commit3ee8d648935cc63a611c454103419f2100d45c56
treee61b2310e5a72b5e26a82da898400a79d0af6f22
parent7b296be56d7355e6cbf340a1f6a567810ba4c32c
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c