From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch] mm: madvise correct return code
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090512052139.GE32535@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
This is a pretty obscure case, but it doesn't hurt to follow standards
if they're there. I can't imagine any real program relying on a 0 range
madvise call with invalid behaviour *not* failing... We have this in
SLES11 FWIW, and no problems reported.
--
mm: madvise correct return code
The posix_madvise() function succeeds (and does nothing) when called with
parameters (NULL, 0, -1); according to LSB tests, it should fail with EINVAL
because -1 is not a valid flag.
When called with a valid address and size, it correctly fails.
So perform an initial check for valid flags first.
Reported-by: Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---
mm/madvise.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/madvise.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/madvise.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/madvise.c
@@ -247,12 +247,30 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
break;
default:
- error = -EINVAL;
+ BUG();
break;
}
return error;
}
+static int
+madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
+{
+ switch (behavior) {
+ case MADV_DOFORK:
+ case MADV_DONTFORK:
+ case MADV_NORMAL:
+ case MADV_SEQUENTIAL:
+ case MADV_RANDOM:
+ case MADV_REMOVE:
+ case MADV_WILLNEED:
+ case MADV_DONTNEED:
+ return 1;
+
+ default:
+ return 0;
+ }
+}
/*
* The madvise(2) system call.
*
@@ -298,6 +316,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long,
int write;
size_t len;
+ if (!madvise_behavior_valid(behavior))
+ return error;
+
write = madvise_need_mmap_write(behavior);
if (write)
down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
next reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 5:21 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-12 5:21 Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-05-12 6:30 ` Américo Wang
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