From: tip-bot for Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
sonnyrao@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:core/urgent] futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() on huge page
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:42:34 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-ce2ae53b750abfaa012ce408e93da131a5b5649b@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090710231313.GA23572@us.ibm.com>
Commit-ID: ce2ae53b750abfaa012ce408e93da131a5b5649b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ce2ae53b750abfaa012ce408e93da131a5b5649b
Author: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:13 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:44 +0200
futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() on huge page
get_futex_key() can infinitely loop if it is called on a
virtual address that is within a huge page but not aligned to
the beginning of that page. The call to get_user_pages_fast
will return the struct page for a sub-page within the huge page
and the check for page->mapping will always fail.
The fix is to call compound_head on the page before checking
that it's mapped.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: rajamony@us.ibm.com
Cc: speight@us.ibm.com
Cc: mstephen@us.ibm.com
Cc: grimm@us.ibm.com
Cc: mikey@ozlabs.au.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <20090710231313.GA23572@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
kernel/futex.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 794c862..0672ff8 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ again:
if (err < 0)
return err;
+ page = compound_head(page);
lock_page(page);
if (!page->mapping) {
unlock_page(page);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-11 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 23:13 [PATCH] futexs: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key on huge page Sonny Rao
2009-07-11 8:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-11 10:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-11 8:22 ` [tip:core/urgent] futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() " tip-bot for Sonny Rao
2009-07-11 10:42 ` tip-bot for Sonny Rao [this message]
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