linux-kernel - Re: SHM oops in newseg()

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Date:	Thu, 09 May 2013 10:43:06 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	davidlohr.bueso@...com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: SHM oops in newseg()

On 05/09/2013 03:08 AM, Li Zefan wrote:
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
>
> On 2013/5/9 12:35, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Just saw this on v3.9-11789-ge0fd9af while fuzz-testing.
>>
>> [  163.917836] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
>> [  163.918984] IP: [<ffffffff812c48ed>] newseg+0x10d/0x390
>
> The patch below should fix it.
>
> ===========================
>
> [PATCH] shm: fix null pointer deref when userspace specifies invalid hugepage size
>
> Dave reported an oops triggered by trinity:
>
> [  163.917836] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
> [  163.918984] IP: [<ffffffff812c48ed>] newseg+0x10d/0x390
> [  163.919705] PGD cf8c1067 PUD cf8c2067 PMD 0
> [  163.920326] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> [  163.929949] CPU: 2 PID: 7636 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.9.0+#67
> ...
> [  163.953629] Call Trace:
> [  163.957706]  [<ffffffff812be322>] ipcget+0x182/0x380
> [  163.962123]  [<ffffffff810b99a5>] ?trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x115/0x1e0
> [  163.966752]  [<ffffffff812c559a>] SyS_shmget+0x5a/0x60
> [  163.971163]  [<ffffffff812c47e0>] ? shm_close+0x140/0x140
> [  163.975590]  [<ffffffff812c3e60>] ? shm_release+0x50/0x50
> [  163.979991]  [<ffffffff812c3df0>] ? shm_get_unmapped_area+0x20/0x20
> [  163.984499]  [<ffffffff816caa14>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>
> This bug was introduced by commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4
> ("hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request").
>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizfan@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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