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
next 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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