linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] Fix /proc/pid/pagemap header copy to userspace

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Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:44:33 -0500
From:	boutcher@...umn.edu (Dave Boutcher)
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Fix /proc/pid/pagemap header copy to userspace

Earlier code relied on a broken length calculation copy
/proc/pid/pagemap header data to userspace.  This fix
correctly calls the add_to_pagemap routine after the header data is
set to copy results to userspace in a sane fashion.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <boutcher@...umn.edu>
---
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index b2baeab..1f78cb4 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -657,11 +657,11 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	pm.out = buf;
 
 	if (svpfn == -1) {
-		add_to_pagemap(pm.next, 0, &pm);
 		((char *)page)[0] = (ntohl(1) != 1);
 		((char *)page)[1] = PAGE_SHIFT;
 		((char *)page)[2] = sizeof(unsigned long);
 		((char *)page)[3] = sizeof(unsigned long);
+		add_to_pagemap(pm.next, page[0], &pm);
 	}
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-- 
1.4.4.2

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