-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Jack Steiner upstream commit: 4f032ac4122a77dbabf7a24b2739b2790448180f Fix slab corruption caused by alloc_cpumask_var_node() overwriting the tail end of an off-stack cpumask. The function zeros out cpumask bits beyond the last possible cpu. The starting point for zeroing should be the beginning of the mask offset by a byte count derived from the number of possible cpus. The offset was calculated in bits instead of bytes. This resulted in overwriting the end of the cpumask. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Acked-by: Mike Travis Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- lib/cpumask.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/cpumask.c +++ b/lib/cpumask.c @@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_ #endif /* FIXME: Bandaid to save us from old primitives which go to NR_CPUS. */ if (*mask) { + unsigned char *ptr = (unsigned char *)cpumask_bits(*mask); unsigned int tail; tail = BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS - nr_cpumask_bits) * sizeof(long); - memset(cpumask_bits(*mask) + cpumask_size() - tail, - 0, tail); + memset(ptr + cpumask_size() - tail, 0, tail); } return *mask != NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/