linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:55:40 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ch.ncsc.mil>,
	Chris Vance <cvance@....com>, Wayne Salamon <wsalamon@....com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...hat.com>, dgoeddel@...stedcs.com,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory()

[Alan Cox - Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:22:24PM +0100]
| > Well, as I see, it seems the Alan's patch is correct. We pass
| > newly created mm to security_vm_enough_memory_mm() and get no errors
| > here even for overcommit = 2. But my question was that mm->total_vm
| > = 0 for this case and that is probably valid too I think. What about
| > the thing you pointed about? Well I think security_vm_enough_memory
| > should never be called from kernel thread (we have secrurity_vm_enough_memory_mm
| > for this). But I will check it more closely. Dont get me wrong - I'm not
| > VMM expert and may do errors ;)
| 
| A vma has to inserted into an mm struct so we are fine in terms of kernel
| threads. init_bprm showed up a new case where we add vma's to an mm that
| isn't current->mm. The rest of the vm subsystem supports this and there
| are cases for the future (eg the usermode linux mm switching patch) where
| it might matter that we do it right.
| 
| Alan
| 

ok, thanks for explanation, Alan.

		Cyrill

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