From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765289AbYD2Rcp (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:32:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759425AbYD2RWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:22:07 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43623 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759395AbYD2RWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:22:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:19:10 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jejb@kernel.org Cc: Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Domenico Andreoli , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Johannes Weiner , Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>, Andreas Schwab , Matt Mackall , Mikael Pettersson Subject: [31/37] mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range() Message-ID: <20080429171910.GF14724@suse.de> References: <20080429171222.073929148@mini.kroah.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline; filename="mm-fix-possible-off-by-one-in-walk_pte_range.patch" In-Reply-To: <20080429171730.GA14724@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Johannes Weiner commit 556637cdabcd5918c7d4a1a2679b8f86fc81e891 upstream After the loop in walk_pte_range() pte might point to the first address after the pmd it walks. The pte_unmap() is then applied to something bad. Spotted by Roel Kluin and Andreas Schwab. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Cc: Andreas Schwab Acked-by: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/pagewalk.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/pagewalk.c +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c @@ -9,11 +9,15 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, un int err = 0; pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); - do { + for (;;) { err = walk->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, private); if (err) break; - } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); + addr += PAGE_SIZE; + if (addr == end) + break; + pte++; + } pte_unmap(pte); return err; --