linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap some more

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:59:47 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap some more

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:36:28PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:25PM +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > with current -git a "cat /proc/4260/pagemap"
> > gives me the following oops:
> 
> reproduced

Oh, wow!

[PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap some more

struct pagemap_walk was placed on stack, some hooks are initialized, the rest
(->pgd_entry, ->pud_entry, ->pte_entry) are valid but junk.

Reported by Eric Sesterhenn.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	struct pagemapread pm;
 	int pagecount;
 	int ret = -ESRCH;
-	struct mm_walk pagemap_walk;
+	struct mm_walk pagemap_walk = {};
 	unsigned long src;
 	unsigned long svpfn;
 	unsigned long start_vaddr;

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