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* [PATCH] pi-futex: Validate futex type instead of oopsing
@ 2006-07-06 21:59 Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2006-07-06 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: LKML, Ingo Molnar, Jakub Jelinek

Calling futex_lock_pi is called with a reference to a non PI futex and
waiters exist already, lookup_pi_state() oopses due to pi_state == NULL.
Check this condition and return -EINVAL to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 1dc98e4..cf0c8e2 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -476,6 +476,12 @@ lookup_pi_state(u32 uval, struct futex_h
 			 * the refcount and return its pi_state:
 			 */
 			pi_state = this->pi_state;
+			/*
+			 * Userspace might have messed up non PI and PI futexes
+			 */
+			if (unlikely(!pi_state))
+				return -EINVAL;
+
 			atomic_inc(&pi_state->refcount);
 			me->pi_state = pi_state;
 



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