linux-kernel - [PATCH] latencytop: fix kernel panic while reading latency proc file

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Message-ID: <47B487D0.5010104@ct.jp.nec.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:26:24 -0800
From:	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] latencytop: fix kernel panic while reading latency proc file

From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>

Reading /proc/<pid>/latency or /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/latency could cause
NULL pointer dereference.

In lstats_open(), get_proc_task() can return NULL, in which case the kernel
will oops at lstats_show_proc() because m->private is NULL.

When get_proc_task() returns NULL, the kernel should return -ENOENT.

This can be reproduced by the following script.
while :
do
        date
        bash -c 'ls > ls.$$' &
        pid=$!
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency
done

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 7c6b4ec..1710b03 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -350,6 +350,8 @@ static int lstats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	struct seq_file *m;
 	struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
 
+	if (!task)
+		return -ENOENT;
 	ret = single_open(file, lstats_show_proc, NULL);
 	if (!ret) {
 		m = file->private_data;
-- 
1.5.3.8

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