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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: potential NULL dereference in futex_wait_requeue_pi()
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:25:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120718142514.GA18850@elgon.mountain> (raw)

Hi Darren,

The patch 52400ba94675: "futex: add requeue_pi functionality" from
Apr 3, 2009, leads to the following warning:
kernel/futex.c:2373 futex_wait_requeue_pi()
	 error: potential NULL dereference 'pi_mutex'.

  2330          if (!q.rt_waiter) {
  2331                  /*
  2332                   * Got the lock. We might not be the anticipated owner if we
  2333                   * did a lock-steal - fix up the PI-state in that case.
  2334                   */
  2335                  if (q.pi_state && (q.pi_state->owner != current)) {
  2336                          spin_lock(q.lock_ptr);
  2337                          ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr2, &q, current);

pi_mutex is NULL here and it looks like fixup_pi_state_owner() can
return -EFAULT.

  2338                          spin_unlock(q.lock_ptr);
  2339                  }
  2340          } else {

	[snipped]

  2366          }
  2367  
  2368          /*
  2369           * If fixup_pi_state_owner() faulted and was unable to handle the
  2370           * fault, unlock the rt_mutex and return the fault to userspace.
  2371           */
  2372          if (ret == -EFAULT) {
  2373                  if (rt_mutex_owner(pi_mutex) == current)
                                           ^^^^^^^^
This will oops if pi_mutex is NULL.

  2374                          rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex);
  2375          } else if (ret == -EINTR) {

regards,
dan carpenter


             reply	other threads:[~2012-07-18 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-18 14:25 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-07-18 15:31 ` potential NULL dereference in futex_wait_requeue_pi() Dave Jones
2012-07-18 15:41   ` Darren Hart
2012-07-18 15:55     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-07-18 16:03 ` Darren Hart
2012-07-18 18:01   ` Dave Jones
2012-07-19  4:21     ` Darren Hart

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