From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:05:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322120509.GC21571@bicker> (raw)
"m" is never NULL here. We need a different test for the end of list
condition.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
Found with a static checker and compile tested only. Please review
carefully.
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index a44a789..b442dac 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
}
read_unlock(&kclist_lock);
- if (m = NULL) {
+ if (&m->list = &kclist_head) {
if (clear_user(buffer, tsz))
return -EFAULT;
} else if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr((void *)start)) {
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:05:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322120509.GC21571@bicker> (raw)
"m" is never NULL here. We need a different test for the end of list
condition.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
Found with a static checker and compile tested only. Please review
carefully.
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index a44a789..b442dac 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
}
read_unlock(&kclist_lock);
- if (m == NULL) {
+ if (&m->list == &kclist_head) {
if (clear_user(buffer, tsz))
return -EFAULT;
} else if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr((void *)start)) {
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 12:05 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-03-22 12:05 ` [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list Dan Carpenter
2010-03-23 0:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 0:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 2:47 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-23 2:47 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-23 3:31 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 3:31 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 6:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 6:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 7:00 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-23 7:00 ` Américo Wang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100322120509.GC21571@bicker \
--to=error27@gmail.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=jaswinderrajput@gmail.com \
--cc=jirislaby@gmail.com \
--cc=kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com \
--cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.