From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933143Ab2ILXrg (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:47:36 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64318 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757095Ab2ILXpM (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:45:12 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 35/46] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:39:25 -0700 Message-Id: <20120912233821.338551227@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Jones commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream. Trivially triggerable, found by trinity: kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546! Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670) Call Trace: show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450 show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20 traverse+0xf2/0x230 seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0 vfs_read+0xac/0x180 sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0 system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen break; default: - BUG(); + return -EINVAL; } l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);