From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754637Ab2IQBAj (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:00:39 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33890 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753200Ab2IQAvT (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:51:19 -0400 Message-Id: <20120917003632.350926689@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:37:09 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Dave Jones Subject: [ 044/135] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str In-Reply-To: <20120917003625.784119135@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Jones 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index bd92431..4ada3be 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int no_context) break; default: - BUG(); + return -EINVAL; } l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);